[gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Einar Karttunen]

Hello

When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
from a floppy?

- Einar Karttunen

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Chad Huneycutt]

Einar Karttunen wrote:

>Hello
>
>When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
>without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
>be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
>install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
>from a floppy?
>
The short answer is yes, there are many ways to get a build image going. 
 You can used the bootable CD from rc5, you can use boot floppies, you 
can wait until drobbins gets this new zdisk stuff going.  The 
requirements for the system to bootsrap from is that it has kernel 2.4, 
networking support, and optionally, reiserfs support and tools.

Chad (chadh)

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Nathaniel Grady]

My usual method of installing gentoo is to start wiht 2 partitions - put slakware on one (iut has reiserfs support), extract the gentoo tbuild tarball on the second partation, chroot and then follow the build-cd steps. works fine. I'll probably put BSD on the slakware partition, but if you wanted after you finished installing it could be wiped and used as /home or /usr... 

--Nate Grady

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:41PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
> without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
> be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
> install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
> from a floppy?
> 
> - Einar Karttunen
> 
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Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Djamil ESSAISSI]

Question;

I got running quite a few rc5 around, one o'them is the cfx5.tgv.net ... my router at home hooked to a XDSL a couple  o'worksttions ...

So if/when i decide to upgrade to rc6 (which i dont really need right now 'cause everything works well ...) will it be possible to somehow "upgrade" or will i have to redo it all ?

1000's thanx. 

 
On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:07:40 -0400
Chad Huneycutt <chad.huneycutt@acm.org> wrote:

:-)Einar Karttunen wrote:
:-)
:-)>Hello
:-)>
:-)>When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
:-)>without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
:-)>be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
:-)>install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
:-)>from a floppy?
:-)>
:-)The short answer is yes, there are many ways to get a build image
:-)going. 
:-) You can used the bootable CD from rc5, you can use boot floppies, you 
:-)can wait until drobbins gets this new zdisk stuff going.  The 
:-)requirements for the system to bootsrap from is that it has kernel 2.4,
:-)networking support, and optionally, reiserfs support and tools.
:-)
:-)Chad (chadh)
:-)
:-)
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:-)http://cvs.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
:-)

I think, so I am. yeah but, why ?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 01:04:41PM +0300, Einar Karttunen wrote:
> Hello
> 
> When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
> without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
> be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
> install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
> from a floppy?

Working on floppy and cd-based installs (new system) today.

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.			

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[davidc]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:04:41 +0300
Einar Karttunen <ekarttun@cs.Helsinki.FI> wrote:

> Hello
> 
> When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
> without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
> be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
> install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
> from a floppy?
> 
> - Einar Karttunen
> 
> 

I have created a directory for gentoo and chrooted to it and installed and installed a system successfully.

-- 
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jabber id:  davec@jabber.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] When will rc6 be ready?

[Daniel Robbins]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 04:39:58PM +0200, Djamil ESSAISSI wrote:

> So if/when i decide to upgrade to rc6 (which i dont really need right now
> 'cause everything works well ...) will it be possible to somehow "upgrade" or
> will i have to redo it all ?  1000's thanx. 

It should be possible to upgrade, but it will require specific instructions.
Once rc6 is solid (a few weeks after the full release), I'll get people working
on testing rc5->rc6 upgrades so that we can get a solid set of instructions.

Best Regards,

-- 
Daniel Robbins					<drobbins@gentoo.org>
Chief Architect/President			http://www.gentoo.org 
Gentoo Technologies, Inc.