Which leads me to a trivia question, what's on the second live CD? at:
ftp://ftp2.jetstreamgames.co.nz/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/i686/ There are two ISO's.... I've just downloaded em both, but not cut them yet... I'm going to play that game this weekend sometime if I get a chance, and assuming Kate doesn't go into Labour.. (Expecting a child pretty much now, please send sleeping pills, and unmarked bills...) Cheers, Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Sawtell" > 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 >
