On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Jc García wrote: > 2015-07-16 14:17 GMT-06:00 <gottl...@nyu.edu>: >> On Thu, Jul 16 2015, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: >> >>>> On Jul 16, 2015, at 3:44 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> The Gentoo minimal CD does not work if you simply dd it to a thumb drive >>>> (I rediscovered this anew on Monday). It works just fine if you use >>>> unetbootin to do the magic though. >>> >>> I highly recommend using the ArchLinux ISO, which can be burned to a >>> flash drive with dd. It doesn’t have the gentoo-specific tools, but >>> that’s really the only problem. UNetBootin has always been hit or miss >>> for me. >>> >>> Alec >> >> Thank you both. Let's see if Alan is right and Neil offers a magic dd >> recipe. When this is over I will update the wiki or at least add a >> comment for the authors to consider. >> > Why do you want to use the gentoo minimal CD? if your laptop has EFI > I don't think you will be able to configure it properly. (I'm not > aware if the minimal cd has an EFI boot partition, but by the way you > describe your boot it seemes it doesn't, is this right? you can check > the iso with fdisk -l )
I am not trying efi. > Either way I still don't know why the manual keeps recomending using a > minimal installation cd for amd64 platforms, especially desktop types. > I recommend you to boot somthing that has X, a browser and > Networkmanager, I see no point the unnecessary pain of installing > gentoo with a console only CD on such newer hardware. It's just > complicating your life because you want to. I have not had trouble with the minimal cd. I do the actual work on another (gentoo) machine. allan
