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 1Kn0wO-0003vj-ML for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:00:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99020E0324; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 539B1E0324 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 01:00:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7354A696A6 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 12:00:39 +1100 (EST) Message-ID: <48EAB481.5010909@netspace.net.au> Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:29:45 +0930 From: Iain Buchanan User-Agent: Thunderbird/3.0a2 (X11; 2008072418) 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: Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive References: <49bf44f10810060801q22eb4e11h125ef44199c3d903@mail.gmail.com> <48EA86C5.6070802@gmail.com> <4ef07b8c0810061455k7c643094m47762f159d21189c@mail.gmail.com> <350fc7cf0810061701k382c1b34tfe384d6f9debe0d0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <350fc7cf0810061701k382c1b34tfe384d6f9debe0d0@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 212b5f99-c05c-4750-a79a-cda91162db1f X-Archives-Hash: 8e3274ebd402e2934f16032a4336d224 Andrey Falko wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill 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/ > > not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal > install CD, but I don't remember. you can pretty much unpack any gentoo bootable live cd to a usb drive, then run grub over it, and it's bootable (on newer systems). I hear this guy wrote a howto: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html -- Iain Buchanan The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein