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 1L0a8F-00084e-9G for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:13:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 52902E0328; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24C6AE0328 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:13:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1E89DEF52 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:13:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id nQyGhSu8NHYB for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:47:44 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE2B5DEF32 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:13:00 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home 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 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112145304.7addf5c0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20081112145304.7addf5c0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> 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: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811131054.33352.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: e65257a8-1b90-4ab6-9e1b-323cf606740f X-Archives-Hash: 35283ea87fd4fa35fe0569bdfaa3b001 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