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> I've successfully used this process (tftp) to install onto a slim Sony |
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> Vaio without buying their (overpriced, proprietary) pcmcia CD-ROM: |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html |
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> "Will Glynn" <delta407@×××××××××××××××.net> on 04/17/2002 12:45:05 PM |
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> Please respond to gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> cc: (bcc: Julian Urquijo/NYSO/US) |
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> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD |
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> I was recently (40 minutes ago) placed in a position where I wanted to |
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> install Gentoo on an existing Linux computer. But... I didn't have a |
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> Gentoo CD, nor did I have access to a burner. I'm sure that there are |
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> others who are in this same position but would still like to use |
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> Gentoo. |
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> ...no, this e-mail isn't asking for help. How I did this may be obvious |
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> to some of you, but it took me a good half hour to figure out. I booted |
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> up the computer, downloaded the 16 MB ISO, did a mount -o loop .iso |
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> gentoocd/ and copied the contents into /boot/gentoo. The machine was |
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> running grub, so I added the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst: |
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> title Gentoo Linux Setup |
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> kernel /gentoo/isolinux/kernel devfs=nomount vga=normal |
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> load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=22000 root=/dev/ram0 rw |
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> initrd /gentoo/isolinux/rescue.gz |
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> Then I rebooted and the world was happy. (After trying to figure out |
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> why it didn't work for half an hour, that is. But it works now, |
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> anyway.) This seems like a reasonable way to load Gentoo without |
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> writing to a CD-R, which some people might find useful. |
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> --delta407 |
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