Hi all, I am new to Gentoo, but having made a test install on one of my machines, so far I am impressed.
The main reason for my interest in Gentoo was to replace Suse on my server, since it looked promising in the control I have over the installation. My question is this: I want to replace Suse on the server with the minimal amount of server downtime (I won't have time to do a complete installation in one sitting - the Gentoo install I expect to take a number of weeks to set up before it will have the necessary software installed to replace Suse). I also want to ditch one of the drives in that box (I have a 120GB drive which I want to keep, and a 6GB drive which I want to remove). The 6GB drive currently has the Suse installation on it. Here is the current setup: hda - 6GB. hda1 - /boot hda2 - swap hda3 - / hdb1 - /srv hdb2 - /home And my current plan: 1) Repartition hdb to add root, swap and boot partition of about 10GB for root (what tools can I use in order to keep the data intact on hdb whilst partitioning?) 2) Install Gentoo on the new partition with grub set up to boot from hda and hdb. This way I can run Suse whilst not actively installing Gentoo. 3) Once Gentoo is running the necessary software (the minimum is probably ssh, an FTP server, Subversion and apache with mod_python). So far so good. But what is necessary to remove the old drive? The plan is to move the 120GB drive into the hda position. Clearly I will have to edit grub.conf, and fstab, but are there any other things I will need to think about. Cheers, -- Anthony Roy -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
