[gentoo-dev] alt install

[gentoo-dev] alt install

[gentoo]

i am interested in doing a  alt install if i already have a partition on 
my rh box can i just use toms disk and boot of it (or boot the regular 
way )use fdisk partition use wget and get the tar and install it or .....

[gentoo-dev] alt install

[ioda 01]

i am a little confused i wanna install of a linux partition (rh)i have an 
extra partition that is empty ....how do i install do i have to boot off 
toms floppy and do the partition and format  and then use wget and obtain 
stage1
or i could just download the tar on that partition and use fdisk and make 
the partition from my redhat box and take it from there
thanx  and i apologize for the inconvenince :)
all i am saying i dont have to use parted to create me an empty ;artition 
since i already have one or ..... thanx and god bless u keep up the good 
work





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Re: [gentoo-dev] alt install

[Christian Skarby]

> i am a little confused
who is not ;p

> i wanna install of a linux partition (rh)i have
> an  extra partition that is empty ....
good

> how do i install
I'll give you a sugestion in a minute

> do i have to boot
> off  toms floppy and do the partition and format  and then use wget and
> obtain  stage1
not neccesarily

> or i could just download the tar on that partition and use fdisk and
> make  the partition from my redhat box and take it from there
most likely - use your free space and this will work out nice
if you are short of hd-space it might find handy either to boot with the
boot-disk and start from scratch. It might also be possible to download
stage1 and build a basesystem, make a kernel, reboot and copy from this
partition and to another with more space if you wish that.

After all; what that is the most effective solution will depend on how
much hd-space you've got, how your partitioning is today and how you'd
like it to become. There are tools to do resizing of filesystems and
partitions, but I have no experience with those, and my intution tells me
that those in many cases will destroy the data on at least the partition
and filesystem you are  treating.

> thanx  and i apologize for the inconvenince :)
np

Good luck!

Christian

Re: [gentoo-dev] alt install

[Kevin Hayes]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 07:05:43 +0000
"ioda 01" <ioda01@hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> i am a little confused i wanna install of a linux partition (rh)i have an 
> extra partition that is empty ....how do i install do i have to boot off 
> toms floppy and do the partition and format  and then use wget and obtain 
> stage1
> or i could just download the tar on that partition and use fdisk and make 
> the partition from my redhat box and take it from there
> thanx  and i apologize for the inconvenince :)
> all i am saying i dont have to use parted to create me an empty ;artition 
> since i already have one or ..... thanx and god bless u keep up the good 
> work
> 

You have the right idea, follow the instructions in install.txt, but
make the partition from Redhat, extract the tarball to it, chroot to it
etc.

--- 
Kevin Hayes