If you can get a console & a network connection running on a box, you can install gentoo. Their docs cover installing from a chrooted environment. The liveCD is really only there so you can boot a new system.
Brad > -----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. >
