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 1L0Jzy-0006Ie-Fr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:59:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 83CA0E0531; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F8D4E0531 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 17:58:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so562231qwc.10 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=fWNsy8S0KmDOEMaU928BWJLRneo31fwooT6WbYbjY3Q=; b=CfujaVI/FYZI/YTnfLDkuRTbi9mFYvC2c+EOzMvmaT4fEUFKBs0SGf9Besl2Gljqm1 h8DDXP2C/CRZYnl9op31oBiTX9tDP/DB55WZt4GfoB3yVeoI616/nHjquh46CBgcv+QK 8/EiVZU6UteDCw1tuO8ROdyzhBLxaonYyPhXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PNzyF7og0+BLYq0DOo51aKMCiIZ3YmWxbycUXPW7O8MMKBCp2DEvnOGYWaq2jnS2eZ jrsM35iKhVBaWPj8ZZvhrWRXritQKkaAZRs4G+43lOkg6sQfXpLdn4+AngXJ+6CCyU7y W8yi9fq1FGnB8z2IA5v1OOp7TKuFKAKIDEXLo= Received: by 10.214.148.19 with SMTP id v19mr9980273qad.351.1226512705489; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.90.179? (dialup-4.231.90.179.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.90.179]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm3969830qwd.4.2008.11.12.09.58.23 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:58:25 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491B193C.7070003@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:58:20 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk 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> In-Reply-To: <87zlk5ndsf.fsf@newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4926280a-a2e6-4583-a6a0-af023da5dfd2 X-Archives-Hash: 10cd93b35c736bfb5132aacf04d70d39 Harry Putnam wrote: > Neil Bothwick 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 :-) :-)