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While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it? If you |
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already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot the |
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gentoo cd.... |
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Will Glynn said: |
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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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> |
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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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> |
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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 |
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> rw initrd /gentoo/isolinux/rescue.gz |
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> |
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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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> |
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> --delta407 |
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