Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> There still seems to be some misunderstanding.
>
> I want to build up a fresh install somewhere besides my existing
> desktop OS (gentoo).  Leave the existing setup alone for now.
>
> Get the fresh install up to speed so it is a fresh and new
> approximation of my desktop OS.  
>
> And finally overwrite the desktop OS with the newly built one.
> It sounds like what you are describing is just a new install using an
> exiting gentoo os instead of install disk.
>
> But the result would be a new install with nothing setup... on the
> desktop which is not what I want.
>
>
>
>   

This may help.  You can install from the CD, another Gentoo system,
another Linux system with about any OS on it as long as it has chroot
and a couple other goodies.  I installed my Gentoo system from Mandrake
years ago.  As long as you can run chroot and a couple other goodies,
you can install.

Another thing I have done, put a hard drive in my main rig, install
Gentoo to run on another system.  After I get everything done, except
the boot loader, I put the drive in the new system, install the boot
loader and see if it boots or not. 

What people are saying is, there are a lot of ways to do what you are
wanting to do.  Gentoo is very flexible that way.  :-) 

Dale

:-)  :-)