On 9/20/2002 2:34 AM, someone claiming to be Collins wrote: > On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:54:46 -0400 Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>Well, if you must know, I've considered GenToo, but I want something >> >>that I can get up and running fairly quickly, as I've other users to >>be concerned about. Once I have RedHat 7.3 running, I'll have >>another spare partition to experiment with. But I think I'll take a >>whack at LFS and BLFS rather than GenToo. That looks like it'd be >>more fun :-), and it can be built without rebooting. >> > > > Not quite shure what you are driving at here??? Both LFS and gentoo > can be built without rebooting. > > >>hmmm, I wonder if you can install GenToo in a chrooted >>environment...ie, build LFS, then chroot to the LFS base install and >>install GenToo. >> > > > This sound incredibly hokey!!! And the reason you would want to try > installing gentoo using a doubly chrooted environment from LFS is??? >
Thanks. I seem to be specializing ib hokey ways of doing things lately. > Gentoo always installs using a chrooted environment as does LFS, but > why on earth would you want to use one or the other to install the > other one? > > If you want LFS or gentoo, set yourself up a partition for each, > install each from your running system using a spare tty, and alter > your lilo/grup setup after the installs are complete. > OK. From what I've read on GenToo, I need to boot into it to install. If I can install GenToo in a spare partition while keeping my *real* system running, I'm interested. Please enlighten me further. Ping me off list if you like. Regards, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
