From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0D4o-0007iL-Up for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84CB3E03AC; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4630EE03AC for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 94B383FAD5D for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:53 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:35:55 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk Message-ID: <20081112103555.567774f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.6.1cvs22 (GTK+ 2.14.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/u2ch4z8nlekr5n+P30w_6/o"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 62b1bfa0-edc7-4fa7-b41c-0c885ae22d46 X-Archives-Hash: 12e863331251df0bcea877622a1e0d54 --Sig_/u2ch4z8nlekr5n+P30w_6/o Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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.=20 >=20 > 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. --=20 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 --Sig_/u2ch4z8nlekr5n+P30w_6/o Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkasYsACgkQum4al0N1GQPKCgCgt2V6X3+ao6Bh5RjGksVIaPXn cRQAoLukPkPFPEJSNOEyTM9EnWklYtOY =3Hks -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/u2ch4z8nlekr5n+P30w_6/o--