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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 1:12 am Post subject: [solved] Gentoo on a diskless Gigabyte Brix 2807 |
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I'm planning to buy a Gigabyte Brix 2807 and install Gentoo and xbmc. Should I be able to plug a bootable USB stick and install there without ever attaching a disk?
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russK l33t
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:01 am Post subject: |
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I'm guessing yes it can be done. One way would be to use a USB CD-ROM or DVD drive to boot the install, with the USB Stick in the other USB slot.
Or you may have decent luck using this wiki page for help: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LiveUSB/HOWTO |
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The Doctor Moderator
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 3:14 am Post subject: |
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Better to use the System Rescue CD. Not only does it include instructions to use it as a live USB but makes the install easer as well.
You might also want to consider installing Gentoo on the hardrive before you install it or use something like resync or a stage 4 tarball to speed things up. Only 2 gigs of ram is going to be hell for compiling anything. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Mon Jul 07, 2014 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks, I will go ahead with this. That board maxes out at 8GB though. Later I'd like to run the entire OS from RAM and pull the USB stick unless I'm booting or I want to make changes. Should that be OK with 8GB?
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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 1:49 am Post subject: |
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What do you think guys? Run an entire Gentoo install from an 8GB ramdisk? |
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The Doctor Moderator
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Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 2:30 am Post subject: |
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I have never tried running an OS strictly from ram. I don't imagine you should have any difficulty with 8 gigs of RAM since 4 gigs seems to be enough to avoid swapping in most cases. That should be okay for the base system, but I don't know about xbmc. If it is a memory hog, maybe not. If it is okay then it should work. I don't have any experience with either xbmc or running Linux from ram to say for sure. _________________ First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
Apologies if I take a while to respond. I'm currently working on the dematerialization circuit for my blue box. |
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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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The key is adding rootwait to the boot commandline. |
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Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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grant123,
Tinhat linux does it ... _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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