[gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX
Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first partition? Thanks in advance Frank PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux partitions ;) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX
Frank Schafer wrote: I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). nice ;-) Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first partition? No need to do that, since you're already running Linux on the box. Check out: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap6 Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX
Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first partition? Thanks in advance Frank PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux partitions ;) If the LFS install is running, you can install Gentoo from within that (see the Alternative Installation Guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml ). In that case, you can just download whatever Stage file you need, without need for the LiveCD at all. Or you could boot the Live CD from a networked machine (I assume you have two network cards for a reason, so they must connect to something :) ) and run the Live CD from that, I think-- I don't know how to do a network install, but I'm sure there must be a way. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 14:04 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Frank Schafer schreef: Hi all, I have a Mini ATX board without floppy and CD-ROM. I have a running LFS installed on this server. It has a 20GB HDD with 2 partitions and 2 network connections (Ethernet and WiFi). Is there some way to copy the LifeCD content to the second partition of this disk, boot from this partition and install Gentoo on the first partition? Thanks in advance Frank PS: Well there are 4 partitions, (for boot, swap ans 2 native linux partitions ;) If the LFS install is running, you can install Gentoo from within that (see the Alternative Installation Guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml ). In that case, you can just download whatever Stage file you need, without need for the LiveCD at all. Or you could boot the Live CD from a networked machine (I assume you have two network cards for a reason, so they must connect to something :) ) and run the Live CD from that, I think-- I don't know how to do a network install, but I'm sure there must be a way. HTH, Holly Nice reading ... 5.8. ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to continue with the install. We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) 6. ...untar the tarball that is mounted... We can mount tarballs ??? ;) So far, so god. Thanks for the replies. Making /mnt/gentoo and mount the CD via NFS could do the trick. Regards Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Installing on a Mini ATX
Frank Schafer wrote: Nice reading ... 5.8. ... Mount /proc to your diskless directory and chroot into it to continue with the install. We are chrooting into /proc ??? ;) No, we are chrooting into our diskless directory. 6. ...untar the tarball that is mounted... We can mount tarballs ??? ;) From the text: ..., mount the partition, untar the tarball that is mounted, ... Ok, it's not perfect. The long version would be: ..., mount the partition, untar the tarball located on the mounted partition, ... Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'*'|sed 's. ..'|tr * !#:2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
