The Alternative Installation Guide used to have a very useful method of using chroot to install from within, say, Knoppix or RedHat. I've used it several times successfully, and was coming back to it to finish installation on a system I began with several months ago. The guide still refers to the chroot method, for instance in Section 3: "Requirements: In order to install Gentoo from your existing Linux distribution you need to have chroot command installed." But the chroot instructions have been totally removed from the document. Instead it just gives instructions for using Tom's Root Boot disk. This is useless to me because (1) There's no floppy drive in this machine and (2) Tom's is an antique that doesn't support Reiserfs, which I use almost exclusively. (Note, there is a superior alternative to Tom's that some French guy put together that does do Reiser - can't recall the name offhand but it's much more curent in many respects.) Please put the previous version of the Alternative Guide back up, and if you're going to leave the current, truncated, less useful version up, please edit it so it is at least consistent enough not to promise a chroot method and then not deliver it. An Alternative Guide should present as many alternatives as possible. Why was a useful alternative so haphazardly cut out? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Oops - perhaps the chroot part has always been in the main document. I see there's no choice here for the submitter to mark the bug report as invalid. Why not?
I'll do it for you, otherwise it keeps on popping up on my "Docs-Team buglist" page :)
