Hi, On Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:44:31 +0000 Sathish Vasudevaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On the mythtv machine there is a spare partition > created for testing. I am thinking of the following > approach > - create all the binary packages > - NFS mount the spare partition > - install the binary packages and boot up with > the spare partition for testing. > > This should leave the mythtv system with a working > setup all the time. In this case, how do I bootstrap > the spare partition ? Should I start with the gentoo > livecd or do a 'dd' from the working partition to the > spare one ? Hm, if you can afford to switch to single user and remount root ro (or have dm-snapshot), dd would work. If you have write activity on the partition to be copied, you'll rather get an inconsistent FS. Personally, I prefer to just create a filesystem and copy everything using "cp -vax / /targetmount". -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
