From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KHZkM-00057q-QB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:42:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3A52E0330; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.153]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6AE6E0330 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 07:42:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so1898865ywm.46 for ; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:42:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=Pv4+xU72iB4bNFVfjrVrL6WugxeY+deGRo8edAlPZ7w=; b=TFcFR5WOaTKsOy7s5Qr0B/DtDzUhe7EwjNDZaHmPLSbejd00ZAme4Oj5GRpUDa1ylp 5Fcy7mWKuJsv0PY9eIPeVWA0HOK45qWAHcSSDukaFwoFWVYR7vCtPXaJSpPeVEdlJYeg ZC0bj7zL5NylFne/4qoIhraD0oveCuF0DY+Lw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=MrNT3RAOBWfZSX1+55BmrdBCyYDGlXuGb9399CdnxN/gQfZEPeEAoSOU7xDlhtJYps vYUQq9gZgXG5J0A1BjetEXrjw0z8yoqtlKNu5GsBPD6fbNPXjw+lBpfbfl/3WNi+Hka2 kYtQR1W8u9M77ycTLIP8ZZEIoPSnlhzKyzD50= Received: by 10.151.111.15 with SMTP id o15mr2282058ybm.7.1215848540486; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:42:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.208.33]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 34sm2435022yxm.0.2008.07.12.00.42.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:42:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <20080712014838.GL5036@syscon2.inet> <20080712023345.GM5036@syscon2.inet> <1215834795.14927.5.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1215834795.14927.5.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200807120943.11579.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: a32c211c-8b3c-4658-8e39-7800cfd717c6 X-Archives-Hash: 7be26385daf2158430bf38acdf0faec1 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. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list