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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:20:47 +0930	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1139309447.28240.0.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4bf052bf0602070038u64870903i8d7033a8bc87ed4d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 10:38 +0200, Ghaith Hachem wrote:
> hello
> i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have
> a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an
> hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions
> is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably
> impossible but i just want to make sure.

you can't chroot to the new install from your existing gentoo install?
(That's what I did) then swap out the HD when you're done...
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-07 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-07  8:38 [gentoo-user] really weird way to install Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-07  8:56 ` Ryan Viljoen
2006-02-07 14:19   ` Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-07 15:05     ` Richard Fish
2006-02-07 10:50 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2006-02-07 11:35   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-07 12:44     ` Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-07 11:37   ` Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-07 19:01 ` Steven S.
2006-02-07 20:20   ` Ghaith Hachem
2006-02-07 21:42     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-07 22:17       ` OT - GRP (WAS: Re: [gentoo-user] really weird way to install) Michael Sullivan
2006-02-07 23:35         ` Nick Rout
2006-02-07 23:49         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-02-07 22:31     ` [gentoo-user] really weird way to install Steven S.

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