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From: Michal 'vorner' Vaner <vorner@ucw.cz>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:09:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081006150902.GA29804@tarantula.kolej.mff.cuni.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10810060801q22eb4e11h125ef44199c3d903@mail.gmail.com>

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Hello

On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:01:51AM -0700, Grant wrote:
> I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure
> how to go about it without a CD drive.  I'm sure there are many exotic
> options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new
> stuff to get this done.  Can anyone recommend a simple method?  I have
> a wired/wireless LAN/internet connection and 3 systems on the LAN
> running Gentoo.  No USB drive though.

Do you have an USB flashdisk? You could get some kind of DSL or so and
install from it (you do not need gentoo LiveCD, any reasonable running
linux is OK).

-- 
Anything is possible, unless it's not.

Michal 'vorner' Vaner

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-06 15:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-06 15:01 [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive Grant
2008-10-06 15:09 ` Michal 'vorner' Vaner [this message]
2008-10-06 15:16 ` Robert Bridge
2008-10-06 15:45   ` Andrey Falko
2008-10-06 20:04   ` Neil Bothwick
2008-10-06 21:44 ` ert256
2008-10-06 21:55   ` Dan Cowsill
2008-10-07  0:01     ` Andrey Falko
2008-10-07  0:59       ` Iain Buchanan
2008-10-07 21:52       ` Jerry McBride
2008-10-08  0:18 ` Simon
2008-10-12 14:05   ` Grant
2008-11-13 20:42 ` Joseph

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