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

[Net Llama!]

Tim Wunder wrote:
> On Friday 20 September 2002 07:54 am, Bob Raymond wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 13:39, Tim Wunder wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>>>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.
>>
>>Pretty simple- create a filesystem on the spare partition, mount the
>>Gentoo CD and the new filesystem, cd to the new filesystem, unpack the
>>stage1, 2, or 3 tarball of your choice from the CD into the new
>>partition, and chroot to your Gentoo partition.  Then you get to start
>>downloading the portage tree, bootstrapping, building a new kernel, and
>>having fun seeing what packages are there (my favorite ebuilds for KDE
>>CVS will probably never make it into the portage tree).
>>
> 
> 
> So, if I understand you correctly, I can just make my partitions, unpack the 
> stage3 tarball, chroot to it and accomplish the same thing. Or, do I *really* 
> need the GenToo CD?

Tim, i'm serious, don't do this.  chroot'd linux installs are not a good 
idea.  Things will kinda work, but over time, it will be a disaster of 
processes dying, poor performance, and screwed up networking.

If you want to 'try before you buy', use User Mode Linux to do the 
Gentoo install.

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