[gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[Will Glynn]

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

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

[Jano Lukac]

While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If you
already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot the
gentoo cd....

Will Glynn said:
> 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
>
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[Gontran]

* Jano Lukac (jano@portablehole.net) wrote:
> 
> While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If you

Not really.  Suppose someone's existing system runs an older kernel without
support for newer functionality.  In that case booting the cd kernel would
essential.

Gontran

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

[George Shapovalov]

It might be needed if existing system is somewhat outdated so it is too much 
work to get all the necessary functionality into it before starting a new 
install (kernel 2.2.x but XFS and LVM are required on a new sys. Just 
replacing the kernel with 2.4 isn't likey to work as few tools will require 
to be updated before that).
In fact I was thinking about such route at some point, but did not have 
anought reason to try :). Nice to know that it works.

George

On Wednesday 17 April 2002 10:17, Jano Lukac wrote:
> While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If
> you already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot
> the gentoo cd....
>
> Will Glynn said:
> > 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
> >
> >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD

[jurquijo]

I've successfully used this process (tftp) to install onto a slim Sony Vaio
without buying their (overpriced, proprietary) pcmcia CD-ROM:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html





"Will Glynn" <delta407@delta407.homeip.net> on 04/17/2002 12:45:05 PM

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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


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

[Jano Lukac]

Wow, that's wild.  Where'd this document come from? :D

> I've successfully used this process (tftp) to install onto a slim Sony
> Vaio without buying their (overpriced, proprietary) pcmcia CD-ROM:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html
>
>
>
>
>
> "Will Glynn" <delta407@delta407.homeip.net> on 04/17/2002 12:45:05 PM
>
> Please respond to gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
>
> To:   gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> cc:    (bcc: Julian Urquijo/NYSO/US)
> Subject:  [gentoo-dev] Install w/o CD
>
>
>
>
> 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
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> gentoo-dev mailing list
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
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> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
> http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev

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

[Chad M. Huneycutt]

Jano Lukac wrote:
> While a clever way to "boot the cd," isn't this a bit over-doing it?  If you
> already have a linux system installed, you don't really need to boot the
> gentoo cd....

The nice thing about this is that you can blow away the partition 
containing the previous distribution, rather than shuffling partitions 
(assuming you already have a /boot partition, of course).

Chad

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

[Dave Lee]

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