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On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters <frank.peters@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 |
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> Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml |
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>> Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... |
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> That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve |
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> the Gentoo Live DVD. |
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> For example, after following the procedure one comes to the point: |
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> "Download the Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD for your architecture |
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> from your local Gentoo Linux mirror ..." |
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> Huh? What happened to the Live DVD iso stuff? It's not mentioned. |
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> I ended up using Unetbootin from an MS Windows machine to copy the Gentoo |
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> Live DVD iso to a USB thumb drive. I'm just wondering if there is a CLI |
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> procedure to copy same from Linux. |
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> Frank Peters |
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I guess I'm misunderstanding a fine point here in terms of what you |
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want to do. Immediately following those words the process does: |
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(Create the /mnt/cdrom mount point if needed) |
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# mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom |
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# mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 /path/to/iso.iso /mnt/cdrom |
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So it seems to mount the ISO image. Is there anything other than a |
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"Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD" anymore? Would it matter if it was |
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a minimal ISO or something more complicated? I don't know. |
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In my case I was looking into building a new machine that wouldn't |
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have a CD, so I was wondering about using a USB drive vs maybe an |
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external USB CDROM drive. If you are doing something where you require |
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lots and lots of prebuilt programs on the USB drive then this ISO |
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wouldn't be appropriate. |
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Good luck, |
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Mark |
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