Tim Wunder wrote: > 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.
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