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

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

> Hey Grant,
>  I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm
> opening a case with asus for repairs...).
>
>  First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a
> USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye
> lite-version-of-xandros-for-kids-or-retards-only).
>
>  Slax comes with scripts to automate the process of making the key bootable.
> Go into the bios while the key is in, and you will be able to choose your
> "USB Megacorp key drive" (or whatever) as the boot device, reboot and enjoy
> a very nice, complete, full featured linux distribution.
>
>  It should easilly become your rescue disk for your EeePC.
>
>  From there, you will simply follow all instructions for installing gentoo
> on your sdd hd in a chrooted environment.  This will work exactly like with
> the cd (well, you'll have to work with it as if it was a network install and
> download the relevant packages).  Slax comes with konqueror as the browser,
> but you can download modules to get firefox instead and simply place them in
> the key, if i remember right at /<path-to-key>/slax/modules/.
>
> Have fun!

Thanks a lot for everyone's help.  I'm going to dig into this very soon.

- Grant


>> I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure
>> how to go about it without a CD drive.  I'm sure there are many exotic
>> options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new
>> stuff to get this done.  Can anyone recommend a simple method?  I have
>> a wired/wireless LAN/internet connection and 3 systems on the LAN
>> running Gentoo.  No USB drive though.
>>
>> - Grant