From: Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 21:40:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DCC8BF0.2050002@earthlink.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201105130237.33698.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
On 2011/05/13 02:37 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed:
> That part of the doc assumes that the user is indeed running from the
> LiveCD-like environment provided by the official installer. There are other
> docs (far less verbose in their explanations) covering alternate install
> sources.
My actual starting point was "The Gentoo Linux alternative installation
method HOWTO" <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5>. It was
from its link to
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4 that I
wound up at the OP link after two next clicks.
> Most distros provide a customized environment to do this in, usually in the
> form of a bootable CD.
I used a few of those many many moons ago, but have only installed in recent
years using an installation kernel and initrd loaded by Grub, and usually via
HTTP, rarely by a previously downloaded iso. This installation via chroot is
completely new to me, though I suspect it's probably common among paid OS
devs, not unique to Gentoo.
--
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words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation)
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2011-05-12 21:03 ` [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install Indi
2011-05-13 0:06 ` Felix Miata
2011-05-13 0:33 ` Mark Knecht
2011-05-13 0:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-13 1:40 ` Felix Miata [this message]
2011-05-13 1:56 ` Mike Edenfield
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[not found] ` <gRLsC-6N0-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <gROgN-35v-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-05-13 0:35 ` Indi
2011-05-12 20:41 Felix Miata
2011-05-12 20:24 ` Todd Goodman
2011-05-12 20:52 ` Mark Knecht
2011-05-12 20:57 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-05-13 8:27 ` Neil Bothwick
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