Re: [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[George Shapovalov]

It might be needed if existing system is somewhat outdated so it is too much 
work to get all the necessary functionality into it before starting a new 
install (kernel 2.2.x but XFS and LVM are required on a new sys. Just 
replacing the kernel with 2.4 isn't likey to work as few tools will require 
to be updated before that).
In fact I was thinking about such route at some point, but did not have 
anought reason to try :). Nice to know that it works.

George

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:17, Jano Lukac wrote:
> While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If
> you already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot
> the gentoo cd....
>
> Will Glynn said:
> > I was recently (40 minutes ago) placed in a position where I wanted to
> > install Gentoo on an existing Linux computer. But... I didn't have a
> > Gentoo CD, nor did I have access to a burner. I'm sure that there are
> > others who are in this same position but would still like to use
> > Gentoo.
> >
> > ...no, this e-mail isn't asking for help. How I did this may be obvious
> > to some of you, but it took me a good half hour to figure out. I booted
> > up the computer, downloaded the 16 MB ISO, did a mount -o loop .iso
> > gentoocd/ and copied the contents into /boot/gentoo. The machine was
> > running grub, so I added the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> >
> > title Gentoo Linux Setup
> >      kernel /gentoo/isolinux/kernel devfs=nomount vga=normal
> >      load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=22000 root=/dev/ram0
> >      rw initrd /gentoo/isolinux/rescue.gz
> >
> > Then I rebooted and the world was happy. (After trying to figure out
> > why it didn't work for half an hour, that is. But it works now,
> > anyway.) This seems like a reasonable way to load Gentoo without
> > writing to a CD-R, which some people might find useful.
> >
> > --delta407
> >
> >
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