Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
Am 02.07.2010 21:56, schrieb Keith Dart: === On Wed, 06/30, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: === able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. === I have done that. Here's basically what I did. #!/bin/sh ISO=/home/ftp/pub/install/install-amd64-minimal-20081213.iso mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdc1 dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc || exit mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 $ISO /mnt/iso || exit mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/media1 || exit cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/media1 || exit sync mv /mnt/media1/isolinux/* /mnt/media1 mv /mnt/media1/isolinux.cfg /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg rm -rf /mnt/media1/isolinux* mv /mnt/media1/memtest86 /mnt/media1/memtest umount /mnt/iso #vim /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg sed -i -e s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb: \ -e s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest: /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg umount /mnt/media1 syslinux /dev/sdc1 -- Keith Dart try the manual from the systemrescuecd (a very recent gentoo based livecd) http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 07:56:31PM -0300, Cr??stian Viana wrote use UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sf.net) to create a bootable USB stick. According to http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/#other The Linux version is compiled using g++, while the Windows version is cross-compiled using mingw32. Both use a statically linked version of qt4 (to eliminate external library dependencies). ...but, thanks to its fancy-schmancy GUI... waltd...@i3 ~ $ emerge -pv unetbootin These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/mtools-3.9.11 USE=-X 267 kB [ebuild N] app-arch/p7zip-4.65-r1 USE=-doc -kde -rar (-static) -wxwidgets 2,443 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-core-4.6.2-r1 USE=(-aqua) -debug -doc -exceptions -glib -iconv -optimized-qmake -pch -qt3support -ssl 156,838 kB [ebuild N] dev-lang/nasm-2.08.01 USE=-doc 765 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.3 5 kB [ebuild N] perl-core/MIME-Base64-3.08 17 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-script-4.6.2 USE=(-aqua) -debug -exceptions -iconv -pch 0 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.08 0 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/qt-gui-4.6.2 USE=mng tiff -accessibility (-aqua) -cups -dbus -debug -exceptions -glib -gtk -nas -nis -pch -qt3support -raster -xinerama 0 kB [ebuild N] perl-core/digest-base-1.16 9 kB [ebuild N] virtual/perl-digest-base-1.16 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-perl/Digest-SHA1-2.12 39 kB [ebuild N] sys-boot/syslinux-3.86 USE=-custom-cflags 3,649 kB [ebuild N] sys-boot/unetbootin-442 465 kB Total: 14 packages (14 new), Size of downloads: 164,491 kB -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
=== On Wed, 06/30, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: === able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. === I have done that. Here's basically what I did. #!/bin/sh ISO=/home/ftp/pub/install/install-amd64-minimal-20081213.iso mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdc1 dd if=/usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdc || exit mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 $ISO /mnt/iso || exit mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/media1 || exit cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/media1 || exit sync mv /mnt/media1/isolinux/* /mnt/media1 mv /mnt/media1/isolinux.cfg /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg rm -rf /mnt/media1/isolinux* mv /mnt/media1/memtest86 /mnt/media1/memtest umount /mnt/iso #vim /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg sed -i -e s:cdroot:cdroot slowusb: \ -e s:kernel memtest86:kernel memtest: /mnt/media1/syslinux.cfg umount /mnt/media1 syslinux /dev/sdc1 -- Keith Dart -- -- ~ Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz public key: ID: 19017044 http://www.dartworks.biz/ =
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
here's one I prepared earlier ;) This is from 2008: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html and these are some notes of mine on syslinux which may help a bit too: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2010/02/syslinux-from-linux.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Delay is preferable to error. -- Thomas Jefferson
[gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still haven't been able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. For my netbook (look ma, no CD) I ended up booting Knoppix from a USB-stick, and installing Gentoo from there. There are quite a few machines without CD drives being sold today, but none that I'm aware of that won't boot from a USB stick. I believe that USB-stick images, rather than CD images, should be the default distributed boot images on the mirrors. And think of all the CD's that won't end up in the landfill, after an install image is used once. -- Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
use UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sf.net) to create a bootable USB stick.
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:52:09 -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: There are quite a few machines without CD drives being sold today, but none that I'm aware of that won't boot from a USB stick. I believe that USB-stick images, rather than CD images, should be the default distributed boot images on the mirrors. And think of all the CD's that won't end up in the landfill, after an install image is used once. The problem is what size do you make the image, not all USB sticks are equal. A simpler option is to use Unetbootin to convert the ISO onto a USB stick. Incidentally, you could try dd'ing the ISO to a USB stick, this works more often that you might imagine. -- Neil Bothwick It compiled? The first screen came up? Ship it! -- Bill Gates signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 06:52:09PM -0400, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: I don't know if this is the proper list to post this request to. I've been using linux for a dozen years, and am capable of reading and following instructions. But, after a lot of dicking around, I still haven't been able to modify a CD boot image get Gentoo to boot from a USB stick. For my netbook (look ma, no CD) I ended up booting Knoppix from a USB-stick, and installing Gentoo from there. There are quite a few machines without CD drives being sold today, but none that I'm aware of that won't boot from a USB stick. I believe that USB-stick images, rather than CD images, should be the default distributed boot images on the mirrors. And think of all the CD's that won't end up in the landfill, after an install image is used once. While I'd also like to see USB boot media, I'd like to observe that SystemRescueCD, which is based on Gentoo, is perfectly good to use as an install medium. W -- Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
