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Andrey Falko wrote: |
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> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill<danthehat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash |
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>> drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I |
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>> attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest |
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>> pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a |
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>> challenge... |
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>> D |
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> Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple: |
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> dd if="/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso" of=/dev/<flash drive> |
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> not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal |
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> install CD, but I don't remember. |
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you can pretty much unpack any gentoo bootable live cd to a usb drive, |
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then run grub over it, and it's bootable (on newer systems). |
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<shamelessplug> I hear this guy wrote a howto: |
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http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html |
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</shamelessplug> |
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-- |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call |
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this their point of view. |
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-- Albert Einstein |
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