Doing other tasks when installing

[nankura]

Hey guys

A While ago someone menchoned to me "you can run a sysrescure cd and web browse while you install gentoo" i was wondering how someone would go about doing something like that. sounds good. id love to have my installations going in a terminal with firefox open next to it

Usually i just print out page after page of instructions. and sit there and watch the CLI, the joy

[John R. Graham]

Well, SystemRescueCD contains a full GUI/DE (Xfce, I think) and several web browsers, including Firefox. You just download it, burn it, and boot it. From there, you open a terminal window to do the install and use the GUI any way you wish. I open the Handbook in Firefox.

- John
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[nankura]

well the part that confuses me is starting the install. usually u burn an iso to a cd and boot into the install and begin. so im curious were to go from when u get in the sysrescue cd

[NeddySeagoon]

nankura,

When you boot the system rescue cd, it gives you a GUI with a root terminal windown open.
You can install using the root terminal window while you use the GUI for other things.

Just try it, you will soon get the hang of it.

SystemRescueCD supports 32 bit and 64 bit installs. Be sure to choose the right kernel at boot time.
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[rafo]

I have used SystemRescueCd a number of times and found it quite handy. Beware of a potential problem with the (lowercase) environment variable 'path' though! Look here for details: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-786386.html.

I don't have a Gentoo LiveCd around so I can't verify that there is actually a difference between the resulting chrooted environments.

In short, the workaround when using SystemRescueCd seems to be to type

# export path=

immediately after the 'chroot' command. All on your own risk of course...

[Fitzcarraldo]

rafo, the thread you linked to is from 2009, although I see you added a post in it today referring to SystmemRescueCd 2.2.0. A couple of months ago I booted SystemRescueCd x86-2.4.1 to install Gentoo x86 on a laptop and did not have to do that.
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[nightlite]

nankura

I am currently using the SystemRescueCD to install Gentoo and have three windows open to do other things while installing Gentoo (including search for more Gentoo information)

Directly under the word file in the broswer is a gery box with a yellow dot as the right boundary of the box. (to the left of the arrows)

Clicking on it gives you another page (or pages) if you want to go surfing while installing.

Hope that helps

[adversity]

Nankura,

To oversimplify things a bit here, and to hopefully give you a better picture. When you boot up the gentoo minimal install CD all you have is a console through which you input commands to do the installation. When you boot up systemrescuecd, the terminal is that same console. So you'd go about your installation as usual via the terminal.. If you already grasped that concept I apologize, but your question gave me the impression that's the part you werent understanding.

I'm not sure if it still applies, but sometimes when you go to chroot into your installation environment the usual command of "chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash" will cause compile problems. Might be related to the "path" issue mentioned above. Sysrescuecd is built on Gentoo, so this problem may not exist in more current releases. I'm sure someone will chime in and have a more definitive answer.

[The Doctor]

I installed on x86_64 about 1-1.5 years ago (its been too long to remember exactly) and an x86 virtual machine about 9 months ago. On both of theses installs I had no issues with path or chrooting. I simply followed the handbook verbatim.
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