Re: [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[Dave Lee <davel@canuck.com>]

Loop mounting the .iso is also good for building a gentoo system for a
slow machine on a newer faster machine.  I built gentoo for my p150 using
my d1GHz and the install iso loop mounted at /mnt/iso and then chrooted to
/mnt/gentoo and installed pretty much following the std install guide.
Once the new system is built you can either burn it onto cd, copy it from
disk to disk, or use some network xfer method.

Dave

Will Glynn wrote:
> I was recently (40 minutes ago) placed in a position where I wanted to
> install Gentoo on an existing Linux computer. But... I didn't have a
> Gentoo CD, nor did I have access to a burner. I'm sure that there are
> others who are in this same position but would still like to use Gentoo.
> 
> ...no, this e-mail isn't asking for help. How I did this may be obvious
> to some of you, but it took me a good half hour to figure out. I booted
> up the computer, downloaded the 16 MB ISO, did a mount -o loop .iso
> gentoocd/ and copied the contents into /boot/gentoo. The machine was
> running grub, so I added the following to /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> 
> title Gentoo Linux Setup
>       kernel /gentoo/isolinux/kernel devfs=nomount vga=normal load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=22000 root=/dev/ram0 rw
>       initrd /gentoo/isolinux/rescue.gz
> 
> Then I rebooted and the world was happy. (After trying to figure out why
> it didn't work for half an hour, that is. But it works now,
> anyway.) This seems like a reasonable way to load Gentoo without writing
> to a CD-R, which some people might find useful.
> 
> --delta407