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Hi. |
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At 17:40 -0400 on 2004-8-16 Lincoln Rutledge wrote: |
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> My iBook is a 366 Indigo, and the cdrom doesn't read burnt cds. Is |
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> there a way to bootstrap the install from the hard drive, a la |
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> Debian and OpenBSD? |
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I did install many times Gentoo from a live system, and it is not that |
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much different from a usual install from CD. Heck, now that I think |
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about it I realize that I did more such installations than |
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installations from CD! Essentially I downloaded the stage, unpacked |
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it into the volume of choice, chrooted into the said volume, and |
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boostrapped/emerged as usual. Just follow the handbook--true there |
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are some tools that do not exist in this setting (mirrorselect for |
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instance) but they are not critical to the process at large by any |
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means. |
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As a bonus one also has a working system in the day it takes for |
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everything to get emerged. |
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Stefan |
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If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as |
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it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. |
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--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass |
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