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From: Adam Elliott <aelliott@WPI.EDU>
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Subject: [gentoo-dev] Installation without a CD
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Date: Fri Aug  3 11:02:02 2001
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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