[gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[frank]

Hi,

My problem:
I try to reinstall Gentoo over an existing Gentoo installation. My
provider has changed to DHCP, so I have no inet connection from the old
system (there was no reason to install something DHCP related).
There is a lot of data on the disk (1 big partition plus swap and boot)
cca 3 GB in my home, cca 2 GB in oracle's home and cca 4 GB in the home
of a user ``tester``.
My old system is experimental, I planned to change to stable for a long
time already.
I do not have a DVD burner.

How do I want to solve it:
Start the live-CD, mount the old root partition and delete everything
except /home and /opt.
Install the new system without repartitioning it and without formatting
the partitions (I'm happy with these I have ;).

Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo
versions, with Slack, with LFS ...

Excuse me that I don't search the forums. I'm connected now using the
live-CD.

BTW: I have inet connection after booting from the live-cd. This is gone
away after starting an as-if-install.

Thanks for any help
Frank


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Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[Richard Fish]

On 8/1/06, frank <sdoma@karneval.cz> wrote:
> Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo
> versions, with Slack, with LFS ...

Not sure what question you are asking here...do you just need to know
how to login as root when staring at the Gnome desktop of the liveCD?
If so, Ctrl+Alt+F1 will give you a root console shell, where you can
change the root password to something not random.  Then you can switch
back to X if you like and do an "su - root" from a terminal window to
get root access there.  Or you can just continue to work on the
console.

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[frank]

Hi.

... and thanks for the quick reply. A lot has changed with the Gentoo
installation since the last time I've installed it ... and it looks
great ;)

I'm not so sure about the formatting question with the installer. There
is a possibility to not partition the disk but there is no option to not
format the root partition. Is there a way to do so? ... or will an older
version of the installation handbook work (installing from the text
console without formatting the disks)?

Regards
Frank


On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 13:19 -0700, Richard Fish wrote:
> On 8/1/06, frank <sdoma@karneval.cz> wrote:
> > Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo
> > versions, with Slack, with LFS ...
> 
> Not sure what question you are asking here...do you just need to know
> how to login as root when staring at the Gnome desktop of the liveCD?
> If so, Ctrl+Alt+F1 will give you a root console shell, where you can
> change the root password to something not random.  Then you can switch
> back to X if you like and do an "su - root" from a terminal window to
> get root access there.  Or you can just continue to work on the
> console.
> 
> -Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to become root on 2006.0

[frank]

Well,
maybe I'll simply following the handbook.
Xcuse me ;)

Frank

PS: Maybe I was simply too impressed by the installer. Great work! 8)

On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 19:51 +0000, frank wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My problem:
> I try to reinstall Gentoo over an existing Gentoo installation. My
> provider has changed to DHCP, so I have no inet connection from the old
> system (there was no reason to install something DHCP related).
> There is a lot of data on the disk (1 big partition plus swap and boot)
> cca 3 GB in my home, cca 2 GB in oracle's home and cca 4 GB in the home
> of a user ``tester``.
> My old system is experimental, I planned to change to stable for a long
> time already.
> I do not have a DVD burner.
> 
> How do I want to solve it:
> Start the live-CD, mount the old root partition and delete everything
> except /home and /opt.
> Install the new system without repartitioning it and without formatting
> the partitions (I'm happy with these I have ;).
> 
> Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo
> versions, with Slack, with LFS ...
> 
> Excuse me that I don't search the forums. I'm connected now using the
> live-CD.
> 
> BTW: I have inet connection after booting from the live-cd. This is gone
> away after starting an as-if-install.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Frank
> 
> 

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[gentoo-user] Re: How to become root on 2006.0

[james]

frank <sdoma <at> karneval.cz> writes:

>How to become root on 2006.0

sudo su

2006.1 should be released any day now:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/releng/release/2006.1/2006.1.xml


hth,

James

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