On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > I've been looking around for a way to install gentoo just by plopping > an ISO into a known partition,. > > I'm not getting much from google on this search string: > install gentoo directly from iso. Or I should say: > > I've found a couple of how toos but they involve quite a lot of mumbo > jumbo like this one: > > http://nlug.ml1.co.uk/2011/06/boot-livecd-iso-image-from-hdd/305 > > I can follow that alright but first wanted to make sure there > is not a well established mainstream way of doing it.
Apparenly ISOLINUX is in a family of very similar bootloaders, and someone made reference to a disk version of it last week or the week before. However, it might be possible to replace ISOLINUX on the live DVD with the family's disk equivalent*, and have your normal bootloader chain load it? I'm missing a lot of detail here; perhaps someone else remembers or knows more. * surely there's a script somewhere that automates that. -- :wq
