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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 Gentoo |
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CD, nor did I have access to a burner. I'm sure that there are others who |
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are in this same position but would still like to use Gentoo. |
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...no, this e-mail isn't asking for help. How I did this may be obvious to |
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some of you, but it took me a good half hour to figure out. I booted up the |
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computer, downloaded the 16 MB ISO, did a mount -o loop .iso gentoocd/ and |
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copied the contents into /boot/gentoo. The machine was running grub, so I |
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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 why it |
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didn't work for half an hour, that is. But it works now, anyway.) This |
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seems like a reasonable way to load Gentoo without writing to a CD-R, which |
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some people might find useful. |
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--delta407 |
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