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 1L0AGY-0005Si-0g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 59E82E035B; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30941E035B for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43E7164A4F for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -1.249 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.249 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=2.350, 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 onoptefcagb4 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:44 +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 6C65264334 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L0AGJ-0001Zl-K0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:35:39 +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 07:35:39 +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 07:35:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:35:32 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> 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: sha1:34MUeImnnldXRzQduZ1P7aqk6Uc= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 7ea90125-1b0f-4ebd-98f4-a959853ae53b X-Archives-Hash: 3c396ded8e5785210a7b3ce3e099c9f0 I should know how to do this but so many changes have happened recently and I haven't done anything like this for a very long time. My desktop version of gentoo is pretty far out of date. And I think there have been enough changes that I don't even want to try to get it cleaned up. Rather, I'd like to build up a newly installed gentoo to the point where it has all the stuff I want. But do it inside a vmware virtual machine. I'm trying to keep my working desktop in place until such time as the vmware gentoo setup is ready Once that install is up to speed with all my preferred apps in place. And any kinks worked out... Only then use it to overwrite my desktop OS. Or reformat that disk and move the vmware gentoo version to it. The vmware gentoo would be guest on a windows XP pro machine. I'd like to hear any comments concerning what problems I might run into or whether the plan is likely to be a serious mess. Also wouldn't mind seeing a rough outline of how to make that kind of move.