[gentoo-dev] aloha

[gentoo-dev] aloha

[Chris Coffman]

hey guys, loving gentoo... like... yeah. but I decided to get brave and install it on a spare machine I have, P200... yeah... why bother right... anyhow, I found 1.3B on the ibiblio ftp which is great, but I wanted to let you know of the major dilema I was faced with, this machine... bios doesn't allow booting from a cd, so if ya could, make a boot floppy image to go w/ it for the older machines, I ended up doing the install from inside a debian install.. heh.

Cheers,
Chris.

Re: [gentoo-dev] aloha

[Cedric Veilleux]

Installing gentoo from another linux system running on the same box is my 
prefered way of installing gentoo. It is quick and easy and you have access 
to all the tools you might need. The gentoo CD is a stripped down linux, so 
if you can use an already running system it will most probably do the job 
just as well.




On July 11, 2002 06:55 am, Chris Coffman wrote:
> hey guys, loving gentoo... like... yeah. but I decided to get brave and
> install it on a spare machine I have, P200... yeah... why bother right...
> anyhow, I found 1.3B on the ibiblio ftp which is great, but I wanted to let
> you know of the major dilema I was faced with, this machine... bios doesn't
> allow booting from a cd, so if ya could, make a boot floppy image to go w/
> it for the older machines, I ended up doing the install from inside a
> debian install.. heh.

Re: [gentoo-dev] aloha

[Jean-Michel Smith]

On Thursday 11 July 2002 10:22 pm, Cedric Veilleux wrote:
> Installing gentoo from another linux system running on the same box is my
> prefered way of installing gentoo. It is quick and easy and you have access
> to all the tools you might need. The gentoo CD is a stripped down linux, so
> if you can use an already running system it will most probably do the job
> just as well.

I agree, being able to install gentoo in a chrooted environment, on a machine 
already running GNU/Linux (and usable as a normal workstation the entire 
time) is one of Gentoo's great strengths.  What difference does it make if 
compilation takes 8 hours or 80 hours, if it is taking place in an xterm 
tucked away in the corner of the dekstop, onto a second set of partitions the 
current installation isn't using anyway.  The only time the machine is 
unavailable is when I reboot it to bring up the new Gentoo installation, 
after I've already compiled X, KDE, Gnome, etc. and copied over a working 
XF86Config.  

Total down time for a new installation, from scratch:  less than a minute.