From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807120943.11579.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215834795.14927.5.camel@localhost>
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:33 -0600, Joseph wrote:
> > How did you transfer bootable CD into a stick?
>
> The short answer is "who says it has to be a bootable CD image?".
> There are plenty of USB-based linux images out there... just use one
> of those.
I've done it this way too. All you really need is a system running that
can chroot and unpack the stage 3 and portage tarballs. Like Albert I
happened to use RIPLinux - very small, supports just about everything.
You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is
something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar and
zip/bzip. Theoretically, even Windows could do it.
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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-12 7:42 UTC|newest]
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
2008-07-12 2:33 ` Joseph
2008-07-12 3:53 ` Albert Hopkins
2008-07-12 7:43 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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