On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:35:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rather, I'd like to build up a newly installed gentoo to the point > where it has all the stuff I want. But do it inside a vmware virtual > machine. > > I'm trying to keep my working desktop in place until such time as the > vmware gentoo setup is ready If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to that disk, but do it from your working setup instead of the live CD environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to build a new setup in a chroot. -- Neil Bothwick It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News