u mean over my existing distribution... i.e. owerwrite !? isnt there danger to break something ?!
|On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 01:21, raptor wrote: |> hi, |> |> I want to reinstall my gentoo, the problem is that i want to reistall it as I work on my current gentoo w/o |> repartitioning... |> |> Can I install gentoo on a directory under root...i.e. |> |> |> chroot /mynewgentoo /bin/bash |> |> then install as usual...what I should set in GRUB.. |> What about of the possibility when everything runs OK.. |> to move the whole installation into '/' |> |-----Forwarded Message----- |From: Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 2004 |Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 15:01:57 -0700 | |Presuming that you have some addition disk space, i.e. an empy <> 5 gig |partition (I don't ever create /boot), just download the stage 1-2-or-3 |2004 tarball and run the install, etc. from your existing system. Even |if you only have dialup, you can do the downloads (and eventually emerge |-f...) overnight. That way, you can browse the net, play mp3s, exchange |emails, etc. from your existing system while building the new one. | |Also, you don't have to exit the chroot environment after building your |basic system. You can continue to build all the extras you need from |the chroot environment. The only thing I've found that doesn't work |from chroot is the nvidia modueles. | |HTH, | | |-- |[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list | | -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
