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Originally Posted by
c.wakeman
Okay, so I have a few fairly specific questions you may be able to help me with:
Based upon the tutorial you provided for the two options:
For Option A:
For the gentoo minimal liveCD, I went to their website and I
think found the correct file on one of their mirrors. Using RIT's mirror as an example found here:
Index of /gentoo/releases/alpha/current-iso/
do I want to use this file:
install-alpha-minimal-20110319.iso ?
No, you don't have an alpha.
You have an x86 or an amd64.
Try
cat /proc/cpuinfo to see what CPU you really have.
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When I do power down the server and use the LiveCD, you said to "make it boot the Gentoo CD"; how do I make it do that?
1) Turn it on
2) Check the CMOS settings to make sure the CDROM boots first (BIOS dependent)
3) Put in the disk
4) Wait
Forget option B. You can't do that
and a bare-metal backup. You really ought to have a proper backup of the entire system if you're intending to put in a RAID at some point.
How you freshen the bare-metal backup would be completely different from option B. There's a couple ways to do it and none of them involve tar. How you do it depends on a) what you want to do b) what things you need to shut down to do so c) what devices the USB drive shows up as. We still know next to nothing about what your system is doing so I can't advise you on any of those.
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If I go the tarball route for now on the external drive and then next week decide to try the bare metal on the same drive, what happens to the tarball?
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Originally Posted by Corona688
It dumps the contents of sda into sdb with complete ignorance of the meaning of data in sda and complete disregard for any current contents of sdb.