Update GCC from 2.95.2: 2.95.3, 3.1.1, or 3.2?

[Tim Wunder]

On 9/20/2002 2:34 AM, someone claiming to be Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 07:54:46 -0400 Tim Wunder <tim at thewunders.org>
> wrote:
> 
>>Well, if you must know, I've considered GenToo, but I want something
>>
>>that I can get up and running fairly quickly, as I've other users to
>>be concerned about. Once I have RedHat 7.3 running, I'll have
>>another spare partition to experiment with. But I think I'll take a
>>whack at LFS and BLFS rather than GenToo. That looks like it'd be
>>more fun :-), and it can be built without rebooting.
>>
> 
> 
> Not  quite shure what you are driving at here???  Both LFS and gentoo
> can be built without rebooting.
> 
> 
>>hmmm, I wonder if you can install GenToo in a chrooted
>>environment...ie, build LFS, then chroot to the LFS base install and
>>install GenToo.
>>
> 
> 
> This sound incredibly hokey!!!  And the reason you would want to try
> installing gentoo using a doubly chrooted environment from LFS is???
> 

Thanks. I seem to be specializing ib hokey ways of doing things lately.

> Gentoo always installs using a chrooted environment as does LFS, but
> why on earth would you want to use one or the other to install the
> other one?
> 
> If you want LFS or gentoo, set yourself up a partition for each,
> install each from your running system using a spare tty, and alter
> your lilo/grup setup after the installs are complete.
> 

OK. From what I've read on GenToo, I need to boot into it to install. If 
I can install GenToo in a spare partition while keeping my *real* system 
running, I'm interested. Please enlighten me further. Ping me off list 
if you like.

Regards,
Tim