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ramninja
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 Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2004 3:30 pm Post subject: Net-Install?? |
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Hey Ive got a little HP E-Vectra system without a cdrom and was hopeing to install gentoo via the network "emulate cd" or something i dont know howto do this could anyone give me some advice?? i saw the diskless post but i wanna run it off its own disk im not quite sure ive never done a network boot before and any help would be great
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Looking a useing a small usb bootable linux distro and grabbing the files off the network and web
http://www.pcquest.com/content/search/showarticle.asp?artid=53018 |
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nobspangle
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| as far as I know all you need is a linux distro with tools to set up your harddisk (fdisk, reiserfsprogs etc.) a working network connection, a program to download files from the net, chroot and tar. Everything else is in the tar file you download. |
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ramninja
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| nobspangle wrote: | | as far as I know all you need is a linux distro with tools to set up your harddisk (fdisk, reiserfsprogs etc.) a working network connection, a program to download files from the net, chroot and tar. Everything else is in the tar file you download. |
Yeah i was gonna try damn small linux hopefully i can get that to boot  |
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