On Fri, 15 Aug 2003 14:02, you wrote: > Hi, > > I may have the opportunity to plug the laptop into a LAN that's connected > to a T1 pipe. That's my chance to change to Gentoo. > > My idea is to first mirror Gentoo on the local drive (I have about 10Gb > spare) and the install from there. > > Is this feasible. > > The idea is that I can then take the lappie home and install Gentoo on the > desktop from the laptop. > > Where should I start in this endeavour? D/L the appropriate CD1 from here:-
ftp://203.96.92.95/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd Cut the .iso image to a CD. ( Yes you do need to do this step. It makes it so much easier. On pain of death, real uber-gurus could probably start off from Tom's Root and Boot, but I'd have to start by booting a CD. :-) Boot it. Mount the CD on /mnt/cdrom Follow the instructions, the command to use is:- links file:///mnt/cdrom/install.html There are a few issues with the X-11 server to be sorted out, but it's not difficult. > Should the lappie be given a separate partition for this? I currently have > one 18Gb root partition. No. that's not necessary. but you will of course need to have space for this file:- -rw------- 1 chris users 477020160 Aug 8 00:16 pentium3-1.4-20030801-cd1.iso or the appropriate one for your architecture. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
