On Tue, 04 May 2004 10:17:45 +0800, Chris Severn wrote:

> I've got an old redhat box (6.2 which was upgraded to 7.2) which needs
> updating. So, I got a new drive and figured on installing gentoo on it
> using the "install from other linux distro" type of install.
>
> I figured I could continue running redhat while installing gentoo, then
> just reboot into Gentoo once it's all set up. The box is running as a
> mail/squid server for a small company, and I didn't want much downtime.
> I figured I could take a week to install, and it would be alright.
>
> Problem 1.
> When using mke2fs, it complained it didn't know the "-j" flag which I
> was using to make my new drive an ext3 volume. Bugger. So, I cut my
> losses and decided to go with ext2.
>
> So, I partitioned my drive, mounted it, downloaded a stage 2 tarball,
> and extracted it.
>
> Problem 2.
> It came time to chroot, so I typed :
> chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
> and I got
> FATAL: kernel too old
>
> Yeah, I know my kernel's old, that's why I'm updating.
>

I'm just a newbie, but IMHO you should either prepare the system on
another system if you cannot afford downtime or install modern redhat so
that the setup time be short and then chroot. I don't think there is any
other way to do this, but as I said , I'm no guru