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 1KIsMj-0005qY-JK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:47:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BC7AE0575; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:47:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (lax-green-bigip-5.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515B1E0575 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:47:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.194.217.10] (unknown [212.21.116.18]) by blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49CD341503 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:47:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <487D1AE3.2060908@genestate.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:47:15 +0100 From: Matt Harrison User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] eee pc query X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95c8ca87-7b38-44ec-9e5b-f3ce8c6618e9 X-Archives-Hash: bf2878edf632f15e37d21553b8054a33 I've got one of these Asus EEEPc's and I'm thinking about installing gentoo on it as the (xubuntu) distro isn't really up to par with gentoo IMHO. I'm not worried about messing things up as I can just re-image it with the supplied discs if something goes wrong but I do have a couple of questions. I've seen people writing about using USB sticks etc to install, I was just wondering, is there anything stopping me from just scp'ing across the stage3 and portage tarballs, extracting them somewhere and chrooting in. Then I should be able to complete the install from the chroot (although using distcc to speed up compilation times). Does anyone know why this might not be a good idea? Thanks Matt -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list