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 1L0GKM-0002b4-0P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3046E03F9; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA8FE03F9 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F9064C94 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.424 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.424 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=1.175, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IAIhm9+byZGZ for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE3B164C9E for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:04:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L0GK7-00072F-H5 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:59 +0000 Received: from c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.6]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:59 +0000 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:03:59 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:03:51 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112103555.567774f0@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=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-6.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+7quu3cNF0BVvPZcS3N7JHh82VA= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f1e50792-e584-4ea8-bba7-d37ee1c327db X-Archives-Hash: aed06658e45d64013ed9bef590cfadbe Neil Bothwick 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.