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 1L0I0F-0003NI-9j for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81270E048A; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59ACCE048A for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63B7764455 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:30 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.816 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.816 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.783, 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 WyZlIa-KcOqa for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:24 +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 48DB864745 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1L0I00-0002oZ-2O for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:51:20 +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 15:51:20 +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 15:51:20 +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 09:51:12 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87zlk5ndsf.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87d4h1pfaz.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112103555.567774f0@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> <878wrpoxbs.fsf@newsguy.com> <20081112145304.7addf5c0@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:TThDpVP4L9ZGnI4QYxsjGZW1Tbg= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 51d3d6ed-32eb-45db-b501-964733bba69f X-Archives-Hash: 054eb9c56ba28fe8ffa1295456069f9e 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.