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On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 23:00, Stefan Bruda wrote: |
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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 |
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Thanks for responding so quickly. |
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Okay, I am new to Gentoo. What is a stage file? |
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> , unpacked |
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> it into the volume of choice, chrooted into the said volume, |
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Okay, sounds like the stage file is my root file system that I'll have |
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after install? |
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This assumes I already have a Linux system running with networking. I |
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have a chicken-or-egg problem here. |
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> 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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This is above my head, but I can sit down with the handbook. |
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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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Thanks Stefan, I'll look into it. :) |
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Lincoln |
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MARTA SAYS THE INTERESTING thing about fly-fishing is that it's two |
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lives connected by a thin strand. Come on, Marta, grow up. -- Jack |
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Handley, The New Mexican, 1988. |
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