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 1L0H5k-00074W-8l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30E0EE0466; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:11 +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 E9721E0466 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:10 +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 EE24B3FADCF for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:53:04 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk Message-ID: <20081112145304.7addf5c0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112103555.567774f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <878wrpoxbs.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_/=hIztyE2g_s/BefxJHNO9_x"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: ab7f9c7d-8234-45d5-baed-56591a88d06a X-Archives-Hash: 8a0bdbe44f12aabfc25ebfd6c6063436 --Sig_/=hIztyE2g_s/BefxJHNO9_x Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:03:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > 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 >=20 > I'm having a bit of a thick skulled problem understanding what you > mean above. >=20 > I can't think of how I would do a fresh install to a new disk from a > working vmware guest on a different machine or even on the same > machine for that matter. The subject mentions a new disk, and your original post mentioned installing anew for a machine you want to keep running, so I took it that the new disk goes in the old computer. So boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to install Gentoo, and suitable working Linux environment will do the job, and an existing Gentoo installation is more than suitable. --=20 Neil Bothwick Don't just read the Tagline; read the MESSAGE! --Sig_/=hIztyE2g_s/BefxJHNO9_x Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkka7dQACgkQum4al0N1GQMcGQCdFfRBRMU1GxUI9Iz5Lzcsccol ssgAoMyjuXzNDsO6GqK0Ds+rEfeG+vg8 =D6r7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=hIztyE2g_s/BefxJHNO9_x--