Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-03 Thread ich bins
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-02 Thread waltdnes
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.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-02 Thread 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
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

[gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread waltdnes
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread Crístian Viana
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?

2010-06-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-06-30 Thread Willie Wong
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