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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@happypenguincomputers.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 07:08:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130107130829.GB20719@server> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130107030508.GA22701@waltdnes.org>

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:05:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
> 
> * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a
>   USB stick.  The stick will become /dev/sda and the harddrive becomes
>   /dev/sdb

Tired of the old dog-and-pony show?

http://www.sysresccd.org/Download gives you a much more complete environment,
including wifi support (with firmware), and won't conflabulate and change the
devices like that one metioned above, and has a very simple install script.

Here's blkid on the laptop normally:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="system" UUID="d91e2ce9-d1b0-4619-abc3-3886142d58da" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="swap" UUID="f303a606-2bd6-47b1-8761-3d5f212725fd" TYPE="swap"

and after booting with SystemRescueCd:

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" 
/dev/sda1: LABEL="system" UUID="d91e2ce9-d1b0-4619-abc3-3886142d58da" TYPE="xfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="swap" UUID="f303a606-2bd6-47b1-8761-3d5f212725fd" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="SYSRESC" UUID="52DC-EE33" TYPE="vfat"

Since it's tools are better, it has x86 or x86_64 kernels, more options, and
it's based on Gentoo ... it's a great replacement for those old Gentoo
minimals.
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-07 13:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-07  3:05 [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how Walter Dnes
2013-01-07 13:08 ` Bruce Hill [this message]
2013-09-03 17:05 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:33   ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-03 21:16     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 20:50   ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 21:19     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-03 21:25       ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-03 22:13         ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-04  5:00           ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 14:07             ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-04  8:08           ` Alan McKinnon
2013-09-04  9:17   ` thegeezer
2013-09-04 19:41   ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-04 21:59     ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-06 20:21       ` Walter Dnes
2013-09-07 12:31         ` Grant Edwards
2013-09-07 23:57           ` Walter Dnes

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