On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 21:41, Gareth Williams wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:10:08 +1300, Steve Brorens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I do know that moving to a 'meta-distribution' like Gentoo would > > solve this problem, but I'm a bit hazy on how I might remotely upgrade a > > stack of sites from RH9 to Gentoo over ssh :-) > > FWIW.... > wget your stage tarball, untar it onto a new partition, chroot to it, > then follow installation guidelines in the usual way. Build your > kernel, make sure you have sshd installed and configured how you like > (and loading on boot), point your bootloader at gentoo as your default > boot option, /sbin/reboot, and pray :)
imho, it's just a teensey-weensy bit more complex than that. :-) See the 90 odd pages of installation manual at:- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml Alternative installs documentation:- http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml > I wouldn't do it, lol. I'd be happy to do it provided there is a sufficiently large spare partition and I had a chance to have a rehearsal on a more of less identical machine first. No mention of these machines speed. I'd not try to install Gentoo on anything much slower that a 600MHZ P/III. I wouldn't do this just for the sake of it, there would have to be a compelling reason. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
