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On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm 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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I tried that recently, but it failed. What I ended up doing was copying over |
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the needed files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then ran |
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grub-install to rewrite the grub files... Bingo... it boots now. |
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incidentally, this is a ext2 formatted flash drive... |
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From the desk of: |
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Jerome D. McBride |
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17:49:43 up 9 days, 22:07, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.03, 0.01 |
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