Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On 10/06/08 08:01, Grant wrote: 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 Have you tried this link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml I have Gentoo minimal install on USB stick and just got eee pc, eee pc boots OK from USB but I did not try to install yet. Here is another help link: http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/Asus_EEE_PC_1000 -- #Joseph GPG KeyID: ED0E1FB7
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple: dd if=/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso of=/dev/flash drive not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal install CD, but I don't remember. I tried that recently, but it failed. What I ended up doing was copying over the needed files from the hard drive to the flash drive, then ran grub-install to rewrite the grub files... Bingo... it boots now. incidentally, this is a ext2 formatted flash drive... -- * From the desk of: Jerome D. McBride 17:49:43 up 9 days, 22:07, 5 users, load average: 0.12, 0.03, 0.01 *
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
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! Grant wrote: 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
[gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
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
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
Hello On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:01:51AM -0700, Grant wrote: 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. Do you have an USB flashdisk? You could get some kind of DSL or so and install from it (you do not need gentoo LiveCD, any reasonable running linux is OK). -- Anything is possible, unless it's not. Michal 'vorner' Vaner pgpxXtzmcyjT5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. If you already have a linux install on the machine, you could install from that. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Robert Bridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. If you already have a linux install on the machine, you could install from that. -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html I'd just network boot it: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_Diskless_Install
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:16:25 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: 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. If you already have a linux install on the machine, you could install from that. Xandros doesn't have the tools necessary to install Gentoo. I used an eeeXubuntu CD, which has a script to create a bootable flash disk. Boot fro the CD on another computer, run the script then boot the Eee from the USB stick. -- Neil Bothwick There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult -C.A.R. Hoare signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
If You have somewhere running PXE configuration, You can run liveCD remotely from some pretend-nfs-serwer. I've done that using simple pxe-configuration as follows : LABEL gentoo-nfs menu label ^Gentoo over NFS KERNEL gentoo/gentoo APPEND initrd=gentoo/gentoo.igz ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/srv/nfs/gentoo And files gentoo and gentoo.igz was copied from live-cd i suppose, and /dev/nfs was was livecd as far as i remember. I've done that few months ago, can help but cannot remember all details now. [ 06.10.2008 17:01 ], 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 -- Rafał (ert16) Trójniak [EMAIL PROTECTED] : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jid : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key-ID : DD681D47 749F E1DC A58F 9084 BBC0 797A 0691 53D6 DD68 1D47 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple: dd if=/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso of=/dev/flash drive not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal install CD, but I don't remember.
Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive
Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D Come to think of it, why wouldn't a simple: dd if=/path/to/gentoo-livecd.iso of=/dev/flash drive not work? I think I've done the successfully with a Gentoo minimal install CD, but I don't remember. you can pretty much unpack any gentoo bootable live cd to a usb drive, then run grub over it, and it's bootable (on newer systems). shamelessplug I hear this guy wrote a howto: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html /shamelessplug -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view. -- Albert Einstein
