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On Friday 03 August 2001 20:01, you wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've been using Gentoo Linux for a while now, and figured it was about time |
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> for an upgrade, now that I've finally got DSL. Thing is, I have no CD |
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> burner. Is there a way to install Gentoo using, say, a boot floppy |
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> combined with mounting the iso image through the loopback device? To make |
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> things even more fun, how about an iso image that's on a FAT32 partition? |
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> Of course, I'm perfectly open to other ideas, say something along the |
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> lines of the method once described for rc3 and rc4, but I would like to |
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> know some way to install without a CD. |
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Obviously you can install from a build snapshot using chroot if you already |
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have a linux or bsd or something on the machine. If you don't, install some |
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other distro for which you can get boot cds/floppies and use that. How about |
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it? |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Matan, Israel |
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