Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-11-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/06/08 08:01, Grant wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-12 Thread Grant
> 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-xandro

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-07 Thread Simon
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-

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-07 Thread Jerry McBride
On Monday 06 October 2008 08:01:08 pm Andrey Falko wrote: > On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash > > drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I > > attempted a Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Iain Buchanan
Andrey Falko wrote: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the bigg

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Dan Cowsill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash > drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I > attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest > pain in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Dan Cowsill
It is possible to get a Gentoo LiveCD running happily on a USB flash drive. I'm currently running Ubuntu eee on my 701, but before that I attempted a Gentoo install on it. It is nothing short of the biggest pain in the butt I could have imagined. But if you like a challenge... D

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread ert256
If You have somewhere running PXE configuration, You can run liveCD remotely from some pretend-nfs-serwer. I've done that using simple pxe-configuration as follows : LABEL gentoo-nfs menu label ^Gentoo over NFS KERNEL gentoo/gentoo APPEND initrd=gentoo/gentoo.igz ip

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 16:16:25 +0100, Robert Bridge wrote: > > 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 th

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Andrey Falko
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 > Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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 >> opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 08:01:51 -0700 Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread Michal 'vorner' Vaner
Hello On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 08:01:51AM -0700, Grant wrote: > 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

[gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-10-06 Thread 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