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Jano Lukac wrote:
> While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If you
> already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot the
> gentoo cd....

The nice thing about this is that you can blow away the partition 
containing the previous distribution, rather than shuffling partitions 
(assuming you already have a /boot partition, of course).

Chad