Subject: Re: Redhat Changes (Gentoo?)
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 14:03:02 AKST
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:51, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
> * jonr@destar.net <jonr@destar.net> [031103 10:33]:
> > If you want to be a stud and get all the chicks use slack. If you want
>
> Regardless, my wife says it is still O.K. for me to use slack :-)
>
> Seriously:
> If I could spare the time it takes, I would certainly consider
> Gentoo. My problem being, the time it would take to install and
> configure a new OS is the time I would *not* be using my
> workstation to to gain income.
>
> I'm wondering outloud here and soliciting comments. How difficult
> would it be to quickly 'swap-out' drives so that I could work
> off of my current Red Hat, swap to a different HD boot and then
> spend my 'off-time' installing? (I have a 512-k DSL connection)
>
> Any ideas?
> And how long before Gentoo becomes the 'studly' linux?
I build a separate install of Debian using 'chroot' when it is all
installed, I configure lilo to point to the new install. With chroot you
can run both installs at the same time giving you time to install &
configure + keep on working.
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