installing gentoo non-locally

ishkabob · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

Hi everyone. Here's the deal. I have a Sun Ultra 10 workstation at work running solaris 8. I cant stand it! Im not allowed to install another operating system, just software on the home drive.
Ive tried various methods of building a nice livecd, but non are dumbed down enough for a user like me. The only thing I havent tried yet is building a livecd with catalyst. But I would have to build it on my x86 machine, and that would complicate things beyond my realm of knowledge.

My next thought is this: I use the universal livecd to boot into a basic gentoo, ssh into my system at home, chroot into a folder on that drive, and use portage to install some software to the drive at home, namely gdm, X.org, gnome, and firefox, which is all i need at work. I know it wouldnt be fast, but at least it would work. And considering how crappy the cd drive is on this sparc machine, it probably wouldnt be too bad.

Then, whenever i wanted to run gentoo on the sun, i could just use the livecd to boot, and run gnome manually from the command line.

Is this possible? Pointers and tips are greatly appreciated.

ishkabob · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:20 pm Post subject:

Hi.

I don't know if I understood your purpose fully, but I think that you would be better served with a live-cd or live-dvd such as [k|g]noppix that works with SUN hardware. This way, you would run the distribution from the cd/dvd, install some files or save your documents under /home and could connect to your home computer or any other computer to do anything different.
I hope this is what you're talking about. I'm sorry, but I don't know if there is any live-cd or live-dvd that runs on Ultra10 workstations.
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ishkabob · n00b Joined: 22 Jun 2005 Posts: 14

I would LOVE a livecd knoppix or gnoppix installation. The problem is that I haven't found a single distribution that has a livecd for the sparc architecture. If you someone knows of one please tell me. Or if there is another way to accomplish what I want, that's welcome also. I have also found that I have some space on this workstation that I can use (about 4 gig), but I can't edit the Master Boot Record. So, I could theoretically install some stuff on the hard drive and just use the gentoo boot cd to manually it. I could, for example, install gnome on this hard drive and use the gentoo boot cd to run X and start gnome. Thanks for the replies!

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 8:30 pm Post subject:

Well, you should also make this questions in the Gentoo on Sparc forum, shouldn't you? :wink:

People there are more likely to give you an answer.
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Alex Ludd · n00b Joined: 16 Jun 2005 Posts: 18 Location: Safeway

You should install gentoo on another computer and remote boot.
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nixnut · Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2005 3:18 pm Post subject:

And read http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml and http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-sparc.xml
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