Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

[Petr Kocmid <Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org>]

On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 09:47, simply change wrote:
> i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I HAVE A
> ADSL LINE) + floppy driver. now i need to install gentoo to my lap. so can
> any body to help me to do this?

Last week I did it on ancient p/mmx omnibook 800 which has no CD nor floppy 
nor USB. 

1. Put the hard disk on another computer, unpack the base installation 
(stage3, portage snapshot, copy distfiles from CD). You may need a 2.5 to 3.5 
ide adapter cable to do it, or another laptop *with* CD drive.
2. remount /proc down to it, chroot to it, set the root password 
3. build some adequate kernel with genkernel
4. emerge and install grub, not lilo (lilo usually can't cope with different 
bios setting when you move drive back)
5. put the drive back on the laptop, reboot with manually entered grub 
parameters

Once booted, you can configure network and emerge/rebuild rest of what you 
want.

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Petr
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