From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DutRn-0001cI-CL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:51:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6JEnxGr000354; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:49:59 GMT Received: from explorer.cz (mail.explorer.cz [81.0.233.73]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6JEkLel008733 for ; Tue, 19 Jul 2005 14:46:22 GMT Received: (qmail 599 invoked by uid 64017); 19 Jul 2005 14:47:20 -0000 Received: from Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org by mail by uid 64011 with qmail-scanner-1.22 (avgd: 7.0. spamassassin: 2.63. Clear:RC:0(85.70.218.199):SA:0(0.0/5.0):. Processed in 0.180039 secs); 19 Jul 2005 14:47:20 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.1?) (petr.kocmid@project-bhairava.org@85.70.218.199) by mail.explorer.cz with SMTP; 19 Jul 2005 14:47:20 -0000 From: Petr Kocmid To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:46:23 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507191646.23397.Petr.Kocmid@project-bhairava.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7c86f2bf-7c62-4ac3-9f79-7fcc6123632f X-Archives-Hash: fea5235e57a9e6c0586e11d874f43a9d 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. -- Petr -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list