Tim Wunder wrote: > On Friday 20 September 2002 07:54 am, Bob Raymond wrote: > >>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:39, Tim Wunder wrote: > > <snip> > >>>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. >> >>Pretty simple- create a filesystem on the spare partition, mount the >>Gentoo CD and the new filesystem, cd to the new filesystem, unpack the >>stage1, 2, or 3 tarball of your choice from the CD into the new >>partition, and chroot to your Gentoo partition. Then you get to start >>downloading the portage tree, bootstrapping, building a new kernel, and >>having fun seeing what packages are there (my favorite ebuilds for KDE >>CVS will probably never make it into the portage tree). >> > > > So, if I understand you correctly, I can just make my partitions, unpack the > stage3 tarball, chroot to it and accomplish the same thing. Or, do I *really* > need the GenToo CD?
Tim, i'm serious, don't do this. chroot'd linux installs are not a good idea. Things will kinda work, but over time, it will be a disaster of processes dying, poor performance, and screwed up networking. If you want to 'try before you buy', use User Mode Linux to do the Gentoo install. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 6:15pm up 46 days, 2:35, 3 users, load average: 0.03, 0.10, 0.10 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
