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GurliGebis
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 Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject: Install from diskettes and not from CD-ROM. |
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If somebody could make a bootdisk with these things, then it would be possible to install gentoo without a cdrom drive.
The diskette has to have there utils:
wget
tar
chroot
fdisk
mke2fs
mkswap
That should be enough to get to the chroot part of the installation instruction, and thereby installing without a cdrom drive.
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Such disks already exist, they're called Debian's install disks 
Download 'em from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/disks-i386/current/images-1.44/bf2.4/
It's a 6 disk set:
rescue.bin: The boot disk
root.bin: compressed root fs image (loaded into ramdisk)
4 driver disks: So you can get networking, etc. going.
The "bf" set I referenced includes a 2.4.X kernel w/ ext3 and reiserfs support so it's not totally crippled.
Just bail out of Debian's install program before installing the base system and untar a Gentoo stageX tarball instead and you're good to go.
Note/warning: I haven't actually tried this so I can't guarantee that it will work. So if you hose your system forget where you read this. |
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GurliGebis
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:20 am Post subject: |
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I know.
Gentoo has to have its own diskettes, so it doesn't depend on debian.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 9:58 am Post subject: |
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| Uh... tomsrtbt disk should work fine too.. As should just about any floppy disk... That's one of the nice parts with gentoo, you don't need a special disk. Any unix boot disk should get you on your way getting it installed. |
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GurliGebis
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:33 am Post subject: |
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hehe, but I still think Gentoo should have its own bootdisk
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Make One!  |
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GurliGebis
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| Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:47 am Post subject: |
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Tell me how, and I'll try.
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| GurliGebis wrote: | | Tell me how, and I'll try. |
Does this help?
I'll be expecting my copy of the gentoo boot diskette by the end of the week.
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| Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 3:14 am Post subject: |
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| over in the guide section they someone has instructions on installing from a floppy. |
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