On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 11:06:58AM -0200, Cr??stian Viana wrote > no. you can download the file "install-<arch>-minimal-<date>.iso" > from one of Gentoo mirrors. it's a little more than 100 MiB. > > use unetbootin to "copy" the ISO to your USB key and boot your > computer with it. and follow the handbook as if you were installing > Gentoo from the CD.
Thanks. Unfortunately, neither netbootin's default Gentoo 2008.0 nor the latest weekly minimal install boot image could see the hard drive. "fdisk -l" only shows the USB key (/dev/sda). No /dev/sdb or /hd?. The latest weekly works with the Realtek ethernet chip, unlike the 2008.0 version. > On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > 2) Is it *REALLY* necessary to download a 700 meg (*COMPRESSED*) > > full-blown system with pointy-clicky-touchie-feelie-oowee-GUI to > > do a commandline install that could normally be done by a minimal > > install image a fraction of that size? Unfortunately, the answer is "YES". Knoppix Live sees the hard drive just fine. I'll boot it, and do the install. Hopefully, I can get the hard drive working. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
