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* Re: [gentoo-user] Install from USB stick; here's how
  @ 2013-01-07 13:08 99% ` Bruce Hill
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From: Bruce Hill @ 2013-01-07 13:08 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 10:05:08PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   For those of you who don't want to do the tap-dance listed at...
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml
> 
> * My netbook's harddrive is normally /dev/sda, except when I boot from a
>   USB stick.  The stick will become /dev/sda and the harddrive becomes
>   /dev/sdb

Tired of the old dog-and-pony show?

http://www.sysresccd.org/Download gives you a much more complete environment,
including wifi support (with firmware), and won't conflabulate and change the
devices like that one metioned above, and has a very simple install script.

Here's blkid on the laptop normally:

/dev/sda1: LABEL="system" UUID="d91e2ce9-d1b0-4619-abc3-3886142d58da" TYPE="xfs"
/dev/sda2: LABEL="swap" UUID="f303a606-2bd6-47b1-8761-3d5f212725fd" TYPE="swap"

and after booting with SystemRescueCd:

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs" 
/dev/sda1: LABEL="system" UUID="d91e2ce9-d1b0-4619-abc3-3886142d58da" TYPE="xfs" 
/dev/sda2: LABEL="swap" UUID="f303a606-2bd6-47b1-8761-3d5f212725fd" TYPE="swap" 
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="SYSRESC" UUID="52DC-EE33" TYPE="vfat"

Since it's tools are better, it has x86 or x86_64 kernels, more options, and
it's based on Gentoo ... it's a great replacement for those old Gentoo
minimals.
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