* Re: [gentoo-dev] no CD burner
@ 2002-04-25 20:38 99% ` Greg Corcoran
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From: Greg Corcoran @ 2002-04-25 20:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
I recently managed to install Gentoo on a laptop that had no cd-rom and
only a USB floppy, the laptop did have a built in eepro100 though.
I had to create my own custom floppy that just brought up enough of the
networking system to download the i686 stage 3 tarball. I extracted and
chrooted and it worked!
I do believe its possible to create a single disk installer for Gentoo
for a specific ethernet card/chip.
Greg
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:29, Sanity in Anarchy wrote:
> I would like some bootdisk besides a CD for those of us who don't have CD
> burners. In fact, it would be really nice if I could just rawrite the ISO to
> my future root partition and boot it from there, but there aren't very good
> instructions on how to do this.
>
> One of the reasons I like Linux so much is that it's free at best (free as in
> beer) and at worst is cheap. But it won't be cheap if I have to buy a CD
> burner just to try out a cool-looking distro.
>
> I'll probably have this solved (for myself, at least) by the time you get back
> to me, but at least provide a couple of shell scripts or something for one of
> the many bootdisks already out there.
>
> Thanks, and keep up the good work.
>
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