Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

[Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net>]

On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <danthehat@gmail.com> wrote:
> > It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash
> > drive.  I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I
> > attempted a Gentoo install on it.  It is nothing short of the biggest
> > pain in the butt I could have imagined.  But if you like a
> > challenge...
> >
> > D
>
> Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple:
>
> dd if="/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso" of=/dev/<flash drive>
>
> not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal
> install CD, but I don't remember.

I tried that recently, but it failed. What I ended up doing was copying over 
the needed files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then ran 
grub-install to rewrite the grub files... Bingo... it boots now. 
incidentally, this is a ext2 formatted flash drive...

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