From: Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@cvs.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD
Date: Fri Aug 3 11:19:02 2001 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01080320193302.00614@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0108031249270.6933-100000@grover.WPI.EDU>
On Friday 03 August 2001 20:01, you wrote:
> Hello,
> I've been using Gentoo Linux for a while now, and figured it was about time
> for an upgrade, now that I've finally got DSL. Thing is, I have no CD
> burner. Is there a way to install Gentoo using, say, a boot floppy
> combined with mounting the iso image through the loopback device? To make
> things even more fun, how about an iso image that's on a FAT32 partition?
>
> Of course, I'm perfectly open to other ideas, say something along the
> lines of the method once described for rc3 and rc4, but I would like to
> know some way to install without a CD.
Obviously you can install from a build snapshot using chroot if you already
have a linux or bsd or something on the machine. If you don't, install some
other distro for which you can get boot cds/floppies and use that. How about
it?
--
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel
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2001-08-03 11:02 [gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD Adam Elliott
2001-08-03 11:19 ` Dan Armak [this message]
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