On Thursday 10 December 2009 14:23:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > The machine I was installing on was a laptop with no available desk top > > to place it on. Therefore I decided to get SSH up and running as early > > as possible so as to do the bulk of the installation from my nice comfy > > desktop, monitor and keyboard. Starting sshd from inside the chrooted > > system was obviously the Right Thing. > > Surely starting sshd from the live environment is The Right Thing if you > want to get SSH running as soon as possible? That's how I've always done > it.
Last time I read the docs (and that was some years ago) you would also launch screen, then detach/reattach the session after you ssh'ed into your LiveCD env. In that sense rebooting the LiveCD is not something you would do more than once - unless there was something wrong with kernel you just rolled up. Hold on, I found it: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml#leave_terminal However, I find what Alan Mackenzie says fairly sensible and something which is a rather simple amendment for the gentoo handbook. The suggested change should not (I think) cause any side effects on a conventional install, so it should be accepted. Just my 2c's. -- Regards, Mick
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