My first Gentoo installation was done with a temporary cd-rom drive with the covers off, after that everything was via the NIC.
Regards, Robert -----Original Message----- From: Ben Aitchison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 10 June 2003 3:41 p.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Gentoo (was Re: OpenBSD) On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:00:48PM +1200, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: > I suggest going to > > http://gazza.citylink.co.nz/gentoo/releases/1.4_rc4/x86/x86/livecd/ > > and get gentoo-3stages-x86-1.4_rc4.iso > > And there is another great thing about Gentoo - there is a New Zealand > mirror. > > PS - I will stand corrected if others have better suggestions. Anyone have any idea how to install gentoo without a cdrom drive? I googled once without much success. I want the most minimal system that involves being able to remotely access the box, even if via null modem cable. Then I can stick the noisy computer away from me, and not mind the long compile times :) Actually, now I think about it. I have a Dual PPro 200, that has a scsi cdrom drive, which I have no idea how to boot off. But if I can boot off of a floppy drive and hardness a cdrom image, it'd be fine? It's got Debian on it at the moment (FreeBSD wouldn't go on it) but it's not even turned on, because I don't really have any use for it :) Ben.
