Re: [gentoo-dev] FAQ

[Michael Lang <mwlang@cybrains.net>]

I wrote just such a install guide for installing from another 
distro...still waiting on it to go "live", but you can check it out at: 
http://www.gibberishcode.net/gentoo-web/xsl/build.html and see how much it 
parallels with what you did...it sounds like you did a few extra steps I 
didn't know about and thus didn't document.

Michael
At 09:39 PM 4/8/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 21:17, Thilo Bangert wrote:
>
> > well - this has come up pretty often lately....
> >
> >              I can't use the gentoo boot cd - is there any other way...
>
>Hmmm... I've just experienced the joys of completely reinstalling a
>server while it was actually running. That is, I installed gentoo on it
>while I had the RedHat installation running - and just replaced the
>services from the RedHat system with those from the Gentoo chroot one by
>one until everything ran from the Gentoo installation. I then did a
>quick reboot and had a fully functional Gentoo replacement system
>running. Downtime was two minutes.
>
>I think that things like these are worth bringing to people's attention.
>I can (probably - if I find a bit of extra time) start writing a guide
>on alternate installation methods if you think it's a good idea.
>
>I can also contribute with maybe a bootdisk/netinstall and even a more
>automated installation process for people not really knowing what they
>are doing - if there is any interest for it
>
>
>--
>
>Erik Grinaker
>Freelance UNIX/Linux systems consultant
>
>"Perfection is acheived not when there is nothing more to add, but
>rather when there is nothing more to take away"
>- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
>
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