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 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.

There's nothing to compile, they provide RPMs.

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