Am 06.08.2015 um 04:23 schrieb Felix Miata: > After reading > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD > which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable > time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ trying to find one. The only iso > files I managed to find are DVD size. When I reach the location that I think > should list them, > http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/x86/autobuilds/current-iso (aka > www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo), I consistently get this instead: > > http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/images/bucket.jpg > Sorry, we cannot find your kernels > > I really wanted to install by booting from an installed Linux anyway, but > first command after extracting stage and chrooting, I got this: > > failed to run command '/bin/bash': Exec format error > > When I attempted to find the stage file to download in the first place, they > all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest pre-Grub2): > > > http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo/releases/sh/autobuilds/20120323/sh4-unknown-linux-gnu/stage3-sh4-20120307.tar.bz2 > > Kernel booted from is Debian Jessie's 3.16.0-4-amd64, on a Core2Duo E8400, so > I'm confused why the apparent arch error message. ??? >
I get the Minimal Installation CD and the stage3 with one resp. two clicks. Go to https://www.gentoo.org and click on "Downloads". There you are. And if you do it from your link to the Gentoo Handbook: Go to https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD Read this: "The default installation media that Gentoo Linux uses are the minimal installation CDs, which host a bootable, very small Gentoo Linux environment with the right tools to install Gentoo Linux from. The CD images themselves can be downloaded from one of the many mirrors available. On those mirrors, the minimal installation CDs can be found as follows: Go to the releases/ directory Select the right architecture, such as x86/ Select the autobuilds/ directory Select the current-iso/ directory Inside this location, the installation CD file is the file with the .iso suffix. For instance, take a look at the following listing:" Click the link behind the word "mirrors" in the second sentence and follow the instructions you read before. If there are no isos on the mirror you've chosen like kernel.org (which is btw. not listed as an official Gentoo mirror anymore) read the file latest-iso.txt in the directory mentioned above on that mirror or choose another one. Then follow the instructions on https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Stage and you get the stage3 tarball. It's actually pretty easy.
