> Hey Grant, > I'm the owner of an EeePC 701 (though it recently became defective, i'm > opening a case with asus for repairs...). > > First thing i did was to burn Slax 6 (see slax @ http://www.slax.org/) on a > USB key, boot it and `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdc` (bye bye > lite-version-of-xandros-for-kids-or-retards-only). > > Slax comes with scripts to automate the process of making the key bootable. > Go into the bios while the key is in, and you will be able to choose your > "USB Megacorp key drive" (or whatever) as the boot device, reboot and enjoy > a very nice, complete, full featured linux distribution. > > It should easilly become your rescue disk for your EeePC. > > From there, you will simply follow all instructions for installing gentoo > on your sdd hd in a chrooted environment. This will work exactly like with > the cd (well, you'll have to work with it as if it was a network install and > download the relevant packages). Slax comes with konqueror as the browser, > but you can download modules to get firefox instead and simply place them in > the key, if i remember right at /<path-to-key>/slax/modules/. > > Have fun!
Thanks a lot for everyone's help. I'm going to dig into this very soon. - Grant >> I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure >> how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic >> options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new >> stuff to get this done. Can anyone recommend a simple method? I have >> a wired/wireless LAN/internet connection and 3 systems on the LAN >> running Gentoo. No USB drive though. >> >> - Grant
