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Hi,
I want to try Gentoo. The install manual says you can use a
live CD, a Gentoo live CD, or an already installed distro. I want to do
the latter. I already have a Gentoo live CD, and I tried using it, but the
computer I want to install Gentoo on is a bit old, so a stage one install
took about four days. And then when I realised I'd made a mistake early
in the install, the whole thing went down the drain. I'd like to try
again, but four days is a bit long for the machine to be inaccessible (I
use it on the side), so I'd like to do it using the distro already
present (Mandrake 9,1). I'd like it to be a stage one for various reasons
(mainly the experience). My problem is this, the manual doesn't really
cover how to do it without booting from a live CD. I tried doing the first
few steps, but quickly ran into problems in that I don't have stuff like
emerge and env-update installed. I couldn't find any packages for it, but
since installing from a distro is listed as an option, I assume there's a
way. I'm thinking, something like booting into the root of the live CD
from a console. Hell, I dunno. Maybe they were thinking you could just
find rpms for all that stuff. I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me.

B0b enlightened us with:
> My problem is this, the manual doesn't really cover how to do it
> without booting from a live CD. I tried doing the first few steps, but
> quickly ran into problems in that I don't have stuff like emerge and
> env-update installed.

Just follow it to the letter, except where you can't do something.
Running 'mirrorselect' won't work from a non-gentoo system, but you'll
be able to install without. Once you chroot to /mnt/gentoo, it won't
make any difference.

> I couldn't find any packages for it, but since installing from a
> distro is listed as an option, I assume there's a way.

I haven't done it any other way.

Sybren
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