[gentoo-user] Installing on an eee-pc 1000H

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

I'm trying to install Gentoo on a new eee-pc but falling at the first 
hurdle. I've followed the instructions on making a boot USB stick in 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml but the machine doesn't recognise 
the stick at boot time. It's a 4GB stick so I made a FAT-32 partition 
occupying the whole space, using mkdosfs, then copied the contents of 
install-x86-minimal-20090915.iso following the instructions. I did all the 
things I was told to, but at the next boot the BIOS calls the stick merely 
a "removable device", not a USB disk, and then it doesn't boot from it.

Can anyone tell me if that web page is up to date and complete? I notice it 
doesn't say to make the _stick_ bootable, only the partition on it.

TIA.

-- 
Rgds
Peter