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 1L0IS2-0005qQ-Aa for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:20:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1EDC2E0474; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:20:17 +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 D2A6FE046C for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:20:16 +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 25A743FAE1C for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:20:12 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:20:10 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk Message-ID: <20081112162010.45b5d21d@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <87zlk5ndsf.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112103555.567774f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112145304.7addf5c0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <87zlk5ndsf.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_/7KdPuIvxjfLAJQ/z5u1N7NY"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 768af745-1e88-421a-a5bf-080c4a0b28dc X-Archives-Hash: c93bac2dab323d5688c7c87aa84611c4 --Sig_/7KdPuIvxjfLAJQ/z5u1N7NY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:51:12 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > > 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 >=20 > There still seems to be some misunderstanding. >=20 > I want to build up a fresh install somewhere besides my existing > desktop OS (gentoo). Leave the existing setup alone for now. Which is what a chroot install does. > Get the fresh install up to speed so it is a fresh and new > approximation of my desktop OS. =20 Ditto. > And finally overwrite the desktop OS with the newly built one. Overwrite? Where does the new disk come into it then? > It sounds like what you are describing is just a new install using an > exiting gentoo os instead of install disk. >=20 > But the result would be a new install with nothing setup... on the > desktop which is not what I want. Obviously, you would set everything up, but it would be made easier by the fact you are running on the target machine, and everything is in place. There's no copying entire systems over, just change the bootloader config when it's ready. --=20 Neil Bothwick Due to inflation, all clouds will now be lined with zinc. --Sig_/7KdPuIvxjfLAJQ/z5u1N7NY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkbAj4ACgkQum4al0N1GQPHOACgp0DAw9HeLoadlogQO9hynmyj aJIAoJz4glCgTQd5RMoHib0H8B7PBd72 =zo9P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/7KdPuIvxjfLAJQ/z5u1N7NY--