On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:27:22 +0000 (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, > > I have a firewall that is built pretty minimally on a P3 and > and old 4 gig ide disk: > > /dev/hda3 2068348 1668104 400244 81% / > /dev/hda1 100728 40452 60276 41% /boot > > I have a 4 gig Cf card (sandisk) and a ide-cf card that should > make the CF card look like an ide hard drive. > > I've been searching for a wiki or something that describes the general > sequence of events to migrate the existing gentoo system to the > CF/ide disk, with no luck. > > I did find this page: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mounting_a_block_device_with_JFFS2 > > > But it seems vague(outdated) and missing many steps. Or > am I confused? I'm just looking for some outline or verbose > steps to replace an ide drive on a system with a CF/ide drive > and jffs2, as I have many systems that I'd like to do this with, > for core reliability on minimalistic gentoo servers. I plan > on having additional space on these systems (when needed) > via NFS. > > > Any help or ideas are greatly appreciated. > > > James > You shouldn't need to do anything special - just copy all files over exactly, and then set up GRUB on the CF card. Your biggest problem is you need to cut 75% from your installation. Delete portage, logs, and so on to do so. You can mount portage from NFS later. You might also have to uninstall X and all desktop environments to get it that small -- assuming you can do so, it's a good idea. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
