Well, maybe I'll simply following the handbook. Xcuse me ;) Frank
PS: Maybe I was simply too impressed by the installer. Great work! 8) On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 19:51 +0000, frank wrote: > Hi, > > My problem: > I try to reinstall Gentoo over an existing Gentoo installation. My > provider has changed to DHCP, so I have no inet connection from the old > system (there was no reason to install something DHCP related). > There is a lot of data on the disk (1 big partition plus swap and boot) > cca 3 GB in my home, cca 2 GB in oracle's home and cca 4 GB in the home > of a user ``tester``. > My old system is experimental, I planned to change to stable for a long > time already. > I do not have a DVD burner. > > How do I want to solve it: > Start the live-CD, mount the old root partition and delete everything > except /home and /opt. > Install the new system without repartitioning it and without formatting > the partitions (I'm happy with these I have ;). > > Is there a way to do this with 2006.0? There was a way with older Gentoo > versions, with Slack, with LFS ... > > Excuse me that I don't search the forums. I'm connected now using the > live-CD. > > BTW: I have inet connection after booting from the live-cd. This is gone > away after starting an as-if-install. > > Thanks for any help > Frank > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
