From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:54:33 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811131054.33352.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081112145304.7addf5c0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:53:04 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> ... 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, [any] suitable working Linux environment will do the job,
> and an existing Gentoo installation is more than suitable.
Each of my five boxes has a small Gentoo rescue system in a spare partition,
intended for just this kind of use. However, in every case, when I attempt
to chroot into the main system from the rescue system I get a
permission-denied error. Exactly the same chroot command works as expected
if I've booted an installation CD.
Rather defeats the object of having a rescue system.
--
Rgds
Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-13 11:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-12 7:35 [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 7:59 ` Dirk Uys
2008-11-12 9:52 ` Garry Smith
2008-11-12 10:22 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2008-11-12 14:54 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-11-12 17:50 ` Dale
2008-11-12 17:58 ` Paul Hartman
2008-11-12 18:20 ` Dale
2008-11-13 8:18 ` Dirk Uys
2008-11-12 10:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-12 14:03 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 14:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-12 15:51 ` Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 16:20 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-11-12 17:56 ` Harry Putnam
2008-11-12 17:58 ` Dale
2008-11-13 10:54 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2008-11-12 19:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Michele Schiavo
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