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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 9:56 pm    Post subject: Installing Gentoo in in a running O/S Reply with quote

Hi,
Sorry if this has been posted before, I'm getting fedup with R*dH*t, so decided to try Gentoo last night and so far I'm impressed
(hell of a lot easier than LFS :))

Anyway whilst it took hrs to build up untill the kernel (which kept bombing with sound.o errors, which I must sort out),
I was getting extremely bored (even surfing the next with lynx never helped)
Anyway to cut a long story short, I have decided to reinstall (just for fun) up untill running the bootstap.sh script, which I reboot back to RH and chroot and then mounted /proc into /gentoo/proc
and ran env-update & sourced /etc/profile

and then ran the bootstrap.sh file

So far its workign fine (I can carry on as normal and still build the system)

Has anyone else tried this and if so, have you had any problems this way?

I used to build my LFS systems like this all the time, so I cannot see any harm in in.

Cheers

Mark
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm not quite sure I follow your description, but are you basically describing the procedure in section 3 of http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml?
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 10:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

err..doh!
Sorry, I never read that (must of missed it),
That is exactually what I'm doing.

I had to redo it, as I forgot to include the optimisation flags :(
but had a brain wave and realised that there was no need to even reeboot, everything can work from stage 1 in a chroot enviroment.

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 03, 2002 11:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I installed Gentoo from my LFS following the instructions in the document mentioned in rac post. I did not encounter any problems. Now I have a working Gentoo installation. I am quite please with it and the package management is a lot simpler than LFS.
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PostPosted: Wed Dec 04, 2002 6:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

install redhat(or any other distro, i tried toms rtbtbut cant untar xvjpf,) create an empty partition with a diff name /rot
cd in to it download any stage u want ( i use 3) and install it from there , pay a little attention to /etc/fstab its very easy
i dont have cd on my laptop :)
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