On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 23:40, Matt Garman wrote: > I'm currently running a Debian Linux system. I'd like to move over to > gentoo, but I'm not exactly sure what the easiest way would be. > Mainly from the perspective of partitions: I have separate partitions > for root, boot, home, var, tmp and usr. I want to wipe all those > clean, except for home, and install gentoo. > > Should I just manually remove everything from all my partitions > (except home)? Or will gentoo do that for me during installation? If > the latter case is true, how do I keep /home from getting erased? > > One more semi-related question: to make sure I understand this > conceptually, using a "stage 3" install should get me up and running > the most quickly, but I can still custom-compile most (or all?) of the > stage 3 programs, right? > > Thanks for your feedback! > Matt
I would just format the partitions you want to wipe and not format the partitions you want to keep. Gentoo is a manual install and you do stuff from a chroot environment until you get a working kernel built. Read through the install instructions. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
