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 1KIssR-0000gd-Jv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:20:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1118EE06A6; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:20:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B588E06A6 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:20:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E70CC3ABB30 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:19:54 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:19:51 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eee pc query Message-ID: <20080715231951.0e3392b8@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <487D1AE3.2060908@genestate.com> References: <487D1AE3.2060908@genestate.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.5.0cvs23 (GTK+ 2.12.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/hFLU_ViKXon0+KGREdGo4Tu"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: dbe0aad4-efee-437d-97ad-867e6d63f6f7 X-Archives-Hash: 4b32ffe5ffd289b5d9c9fe91ed1a8490 --Sig_/hFLU_ViKXon0+KGREdGo4Tu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:47:15 +0100, Matt Harrison wrote: > I've seen people writing about using USB sticks etc to install, I was=20 > just wondering, is there anything stopping me from just scp'ing across=20 > the stage3 and portage tarballs, extracting them somewhere and > chrooting in. >=20 > Then I should be able to complete the install from the chroot (although=20 > using distcc to speed up compilation times). The installed xandros doesn't have chroot (or rsync) so you'd have to install those first. I downloaded an eeexbuntu ISO on my desktop and ran the script on it to create a bootable USB stick, although I actually used an SD card, then booted from that and installed Gentoo in the usual way. --=20 Neil Bothwick Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive. --Sig_/hFLU_ViKXon0+KGREdGo4Tu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9IooACgkQum4al0N1GQOE8ACgyVXWdYvIZe9KZa7mPMGea5CH +6UAn0IV+tqAoUIw02OOQET4u4yw7cD/ =1gdp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/hFLU_ViKXon0+KGREdGo4Tu-- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list