From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:03:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20081112103555.567774f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:
> If you're installing to a new disk, do a standard Gentoo install to that
> disk, but do it from your working setup instead of the live CD
> environment. Your existing installation has all the tools you need to
> build a new setup in a chroot.
I'm having a bit of a thick skulled problem understanding what you
mean above.
I can't think of how I would do a fresh install to a new disk from a
working vmware guest on a different machine or even on the same
machine for that matter.
Can you explain a few details... maybe I'll catch on.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-12 14:04 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 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2008-11-12 14:53 ` [gentoo-user] " 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
2008-11-12 19:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Michele Schiavo
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