On Friday 20 September 2002 09:18 pm, Net Llama! wrote: > 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.
I'll look thru your step and see how hard installing User Mode Linux will be... with the shape of my gcc/glibc, I'm not sure I'll be able to compile it, though. -- Caldera eWorkstation 3.1+, kernel 2.4.18-preempt, KDE 3.0.3, Xfree86 4.1.0 8:00pm up 20:46, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 It's what you learn AFTER you know it all that counts _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
