David Brown wrote: > On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 10:45:45PM -0700, James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> David Brown wrote: >>> .. >>> Then again, I still install Linux machines from a rescue disk, at a >>> shell prompt. >> >> That sounds interesting. Can you give an outline of the steps you follow >> in (say, an example of) that recipe? > > Pretty much the standard Gentoo installation steps: > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml> > > I've not had much success with their new-fangled "installer". > The traditional Gentoo "install" CD has just been a liveCD with a > basic shell. > > - Partition the disk (cfdisk) > - Make the filesystems. > - Untar the base gentoo image.
- this image is on the rescue disk, I guess? - or maybe net-fetched from somewhere? > - Set some stuff up. > - chroot into it. > - sync and emerge to get the rest of what's needed. > > My preferred method for setting up gentoo is actually to take the > harddrive out, and plug it into a running machine with a SATA/USB > adaptor, do the whole installation there, and then just put it back in > the machine and boot it up. I wish more computers than the Macs > supported firewire target mode, which is real handy for this kind of > thing. Oh yeah, just looked that up on w'pedia -- seems very useful! I wonder if the openbios people are considering that. Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
