[gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD

[gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD

[Adam Elliott]

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.

Thanks for any help,
  -Adam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD

[Dan Armak]

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?


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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel