hello I have thought of 2 new ways of installing gentoo. Actually one of them i being used currently by some power users, while the second one is more delicate. chrooted environment ===================== This is the way I ahve installed gentoo on my redhat 7.3 system. simply download stage1 tarball, tar -xvjpf stage1.foo , chroot inside and start bootstraping, emerging etc. advantages: no repatritioning, networking is already thre, so is sound, X can be vconfigured in a milisecond cby copying old XFree86 ie, PLUS ou have a backup system in base of needs, not to mention this gentoo installation can itself be backed up ery easily and replicated acros a network. downsides: erm... I don't know if I can think of any downside... It's not perfect... but erm... it's hard to setup? maybe.. to a NFS disk. ============== yep, like the name says it, just boot on he clinet machine your gentoo thing, mount NFS folder from server, create a file on it, create a filessytem and off you go ;) advantages: no space is used on client's machine. Good when remote machine has processing power while lacking space (you dont wanna erase that beautiful XP, do you ;O ) good for testing gentoo., easy to replicate to another machine. sue this baby with grub and you'll have diskless gentoo babies ;) downsides: you need a good network... like 10mbps at least IMO if you want a real-time system. Well that's about it folks. I'd be happy if someone would write this up into Alternative install if not I can write it myself with a more detailed procedure. Thanks! davoid
Is there a chance that you could put this into xml please, and possibly diff it against the alt-build guide? //ZhEN
Is this bug still active? //ZhEN
i've a question about the chroot did you mean install on an other partition ? if not downside: many unused files on the gentoo partition.
There is a whole section "Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution" in the alternative installs guide. - "I can write it myself with a more detailed procedure." - (2002-10-04) "Is there a chance that you could put this into xml please, and possibly diff it against the alt-build guide?" After 2 mohths still nothing. I think bug is too old.
