From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MTCqF-00018I-9s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:45:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6D2AE02D0; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f220.google.com (mail-gx0-f220.google.com [209.85.217.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1A1E02D0 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:44:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk20 with SMTP id 20so14705374gxk.10 for ; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:44:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Fj3QfZkXNXr4hjCTSGauNUU6raNYwkSjLZfP+mwJqeQ=; b=E47gDDxVB4VO+vPfeT6Hs7tlcoyYPGzFMsqk8yykaju0T7NQN/Jh0/cvoTYCZJCf+s oG6xO2bemTYCaFUV57E+kVZ3CT8V2DlGuggXyWucHrnXGKVgXvFrndA/0n25JSTU7vsu j856lju+4OA4Mq16/PDeJImITBQ6/qWQZZY6o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=xm2Zm6NaBf/Z0dkrYp7V9ZoosAIie4TeoE++jUILs1ThTWgQcBPr+OshMeyRUsACzK E7kK20XJ1YtlGrGyUFzP57vE1luo3p6pviwk9AjliZWUhRfJdznXXaBJl2l2Qpe66tdH jaKgBtVflT5Mhbz2IgBdSwgW/o0I0z15HUn2w= 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 Received: by 10.90.84.17 with SMTP id h17mr1346064agb.17.1248173098409; Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:44:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:44:58 -0700 Message-ID: <49bf44f10907210344t720fd57fq97fa2bc439b99697@mail.gmail.com> Subject: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from another Linux distro From: Grant To: Gentoo mailing list Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba702b1c-9e82-45c8-bd3e-ea11905f1f43 X-Archives-Hash: bb6bee818210089e01a30a4d2d699f64 I'm getting ready for a remote Gentoo install. I'd like to avoid any sort of CD/USB/floppy usage. I can select a variety of different distros to be preinstalled on the system. Can I end up with the same Gentoo system installing from another distro as I can from a LiveCD? I've read over: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5 and it sounds like I may not be able to end up with one big root partition like this: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6 68 506047+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 69 19457 155742142+ 83 Linux If the preinstalled distro has a partition table like this, I won't be able to make a separate partition for Gentoo. If the preinstalled distro has separate large partitions, I will be able to install Gentoo on one of the partitions, but I won't ever be able to set up a partition table like the above with one big root partition. Is that correct or do I have this all wrong? - Grant