From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@letterboxes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:55:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215827759.4394.1.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080712014838.GL5036@syscon2.inet>
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:48 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported this type of installation?
> I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy task.
>
> The reason I'm asking is that I'm putting a new PC together and want to get rid of CD all together.
I personally have installed Gentoo from USB stick (RIPLinux) many times
without any issues. There's really no difference.
With the way the Gentoo works, all you really need for an install is
bootable Linux that can talk to your devices... That's one of the great
things about Gentoo.
-a
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-12 1:48 [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick Joseph
2008-07-12 1:55 ` Albert Hopkins [this message]
2008-07-12 2:33 ` Joseph
2008-07-12 3:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-07-12 7:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-12 17:11 ` Robert Bridge
2008-07-12 17:14 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-07-12 19:51 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-07-13 8:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-07-14 1:43 ` liu shukui
2008-07-12 5:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Miernik
2008-07-18 11:19 ` [gentoo-user] " jalves
2008-07-17 21:14 ` Allan Gottlieb
2008-07-20 8:06 ` Iain Buchanan
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