Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-20 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 04:19 -0700, jalves wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote: > > How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported > > this type of installation? > > I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:45 -0700 jalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy > to do. > > (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get > home if you still need to know). > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Josep

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-17 Thread jalves
Not hard! I forget exactly what I did, but it was pretty easy to do. (I don't remember all the steps, but I can tell you after I get home if you still need to know). -Jeremy On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 07:48:38PM -0600, Joseph wrote: > How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it official

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-13 Thread liu shukui
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Side point: it never ceases to amaze me the extent to which people think > installation is some magical procedure with voodoo in it, or that a > program (which is not installed yet!) somehow manages to install > itself. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is > > something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar > > and zip/bzip. Theoretically, even Windows could do it. > > Don't you need chroot too? I suppose you could ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is > something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar and > zip/bzip. Theoretically, even Windows could do it. Don't you need chroot too? I suppose you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 12. Juli 2008 schrieb Robert Bridge: > On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200 > > Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is > > something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar and > > zip/bzip. Theoretical

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Robert Bridge
On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:43:11 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You don't need a Gentoo system to install Gentoo, all you need is > something that can deal with the filesystem you want to use, tar and > zip/bzip. Theoretically, even Windows could do it. Argh... Now I feel this urg

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 12 July 2008, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:33 -0600, Joseph wrote: > > How did you transfer bootable CD into a stick? > > The short answer is "who says it has to be a bootable CD image?". > There are plenty of USB-based linux images out there... just use one > of th

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 20:33 -0600, Joseph wrote: > How did you transfer bootable CD into a stick? The short answer is "who says it has to be a bootable CD image?". There are plenty of USB-based linux images out there... just use one of those. Slightly longer answer: If it's a syslinux-like CD, d

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Joseph
On 07/11/08 20:55, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:48 -0600, Joseph wrote: How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported this type of installation? I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy task. The reason I'm asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 19:48 -0600, Joseph wrote: > How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported > this type of installation? > I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy > task. > > The reason I'm asking is that I'm putting a new PC to

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo from USB stick

2008-07-11 Thread Joseph
How hard is to install Gentoo from a USB stick? Is it officially supported this type of installation? I can find instruction here and there; and some notes that is not an easy task. The reason I'm asking is that I'm putting a new PC together and want to get rid of CD all together. -- #Joseph