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From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 03:56:43
Message-Id: 1215834795.14927.5.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick by Joseph
1 On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:33 -0600, Joseph wrote:
2 > How did you transfer bootable CD into a stick?
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4 The short answer is "who says it has to be a bootable CD image?". There
5 are plenty of USB-based linux images out there... just use one of those.
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7 Slightly longer answer: If it's a syslinux-like CD, dd the mbr.bin to
8 the stick, and copy the rest of the contents to the 1st partition. That
9 should do it.*
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11 * Haven't tested, but that should be the +/- the way of doing it.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>