Subject: Re: building a new gentoo kernel...advice please
From: Tim Johnson (tim@johnsons-web.com)
Date: Mon Dec 08 2003 - 13:27:14 AKST
I don't know enough to help, but I am contemplating something
similar...... There are at least two if not more folks on this
list (and also on the SLUG list) that are quite knowledgeable
about gentoo and you will hopefully hear from them.
I have been advised that using chroot will allow you to build
gentoo seperately on it's own bootable partition (like another
hard drive) without rebooting.
I'm going to stop here before I get myself into trouble... :-)
but expect more comments and try
$ man chroot
regards
another tim
* Tim Jordan <timothy_jordan@labor.state.ak.us> [031208 09:20]:
> This is going to be a first time I try this and would appreciate any
> guidance.
>
> I would like to build a new gentoo kernel. I don't want to burn down my
> existing install...yet.
>
> I have a second hard drive installed and have created a swap and primary
> partition (ext3) on /dev/hdb.
>
> My train of thought is that I can just follow the gentoo install guide,
> download the appropriate tarball and start building. Then when the
> time is right I can edit my grub file and boot the new kernel. I hope
> I'm on the right track with this.
>
> Questions:
>
> Should I also make a new boot partition on /dev/hdb ~or~ can I just use
> the existing boot partition on /dev/hda? I'm thinking I can just edit
> the current grub.conf to point at both kernels and select which one to
> boot at startup.....
>
> Will I be able to use all the existing applications that are currently
> installed after I build a new kernel and boot it? Sorry if this is
> elementary, I'm still working through some basic Linux fundementals.
>
> Any related advice is appreciated.
>
> Good Day,
> Tim
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