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On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: |
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> Frank Schafer schreef: |
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> > Hi all, |
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> > |
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> > I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS |
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> > installed on this server. |
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> > It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet |
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> > and WiFi). |
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> > |
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> > Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of |
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> > this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first |
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> > partition? |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Thanks in advance |
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> > Frank |
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> > |
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> > PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux |
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> > partitions ;) |
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> > |
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> |
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> If the LFS install is running, you can install Gentoo from within that |
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> (see the Alternative Installation Guide at |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml ). In that case, you can |
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> just download whatever Stage file you need, without need for the LiveCD |
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> at all. |
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> Or you could boot the Live CD from a networked machine (I assume you |
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> have two network cards for a reason, so they must connect to something |
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> :) ) and run the Live CD from that, I think-- I don't know how to do a |
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> network install, but I'm sure there must be a way. |
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> HTH, |
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> Holly |
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Nice reading ... |
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5.8. |
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... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to |
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continue with the install. |
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We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) |
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6. |
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...untar the tarball that is mounted... |
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We can mount tarballs ??? ;) |
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So far, so god. Thanks for the replies. Making /mnt/gentoo and mount the |
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CD via NFS could do the trick. |
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Regards |
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Frank |
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