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

[Tim Wunder]

On Friday 20 September 2002 09:18 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

I'll look thru your step and see how hard installing User Mode Linux will 
be... with the shape of my gcc/glibc, I'm not sure I'll be able to compile 
it, though.

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