[gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[Frank Schafer]

Hi all,

I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS
installed on this server.
It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet
and WiFi).

Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of
this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first
partition?


Thanks in advance
Frank

PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux
partitions ;)

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[Christoph Gysin]

Frank Schafer wrote:
> I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS
> installed on this server.
> It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet
> and WiFi).

nice ;-)

> Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of
> this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first
> partition?

No need to do that, since you're already running Linux on the box. Check out:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6

Christoph
-- 
echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[Holly Bostick]

Frank Schafer schreef:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS
> installed on this server.
> It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet
> and WiFi).
> 
> Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of
> this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first
> partition?
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Frank
> 
> PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux
> partitions ;)
> 

If the LFS install is running, you can install Gentoo from within that
(see the Alternative Installation Guide at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml ). In that case, you can
just download whatever Stage file you need, without need for the LiveCD
at all.

Or you could boot the Live CD from a networked machine (I assume you
have two network cards for a reason, so they must connect to something
:) ) and run the Live CD from that, I think-- I don't know how to do a
network install, but I'm sure there must be a way.

HTH,
Holly
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[Frank Schafer]

On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Frank Schafer schreef:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS
> > installed on this server.
> > It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet
> > and WiFi).
> > 
> > Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of
> > this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first
> > partition?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance
> > Frank
> > 
> > PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux
> > partitions ;)
> > 
> 
> If the LFS install is running, you can install Gentoo from within that
> (see the Alternative Installation Guide at
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml ). In that case, you can
> just download whatever Stage file you need, without need for the LiveCD
> at all.
> 
> Or you could boot the Live CD from a networked machine (I assume you
> have two network cards for a reason, so they must connect to something
> :) ) and run the Live CD from that, I think-- I don't know how to do a
> network install, but I'm sure there must be a way.
> 
> HTH,
> Holly

Nice reading ...

5.8.
... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to
continue with the install.

We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;)

6.
...untar the tarball that is mounted...

We can mount tarballs ??? ;)

So far, so god. Thanks for the replies. Making /mnt/gentoo and mount the
CD via NFS could do the trick.

Regards
Frank

-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX

[Christoph Gysin]

Frank Schafer wrote:
> Nice reading ...
> 
> 5.8.
> ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to
> continue with the install.
> 
> We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;)

No, we are chrooting into our diskless directory.

> 6.
> ...untar the tarball that is mounted...
> 
> We can mount tarballs ??? ;)

 From the text:

"..., mount the partition, untar the tarball that is mounted, ..."

Ok, it's not perfect. The long version would be:

"..., mount the partition, untar the tarball located on the mounted partition, ..."

Christoph
-- 
echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3
-- 
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list