HPPA - no cdrom, no floppy...hmmmm

sirtoast · n00b Joined: 06 May 2002 Posts: 72 Location: Halifax, NS

I have an HP 712/80 tha currently has HP-UX 11 installed. I want to (and who wouldn't) put Gentoo on it now...

The Problem is that I don't have a cdrom or a floppy drive. if I can boot up to HP-UX, which I can, should I be able to download the stage 1 tarball and go from there, or do I need the liveCD to boot from?

If push comes to shove, I can borrow an external scsi drive, but I'd rather go without if possible.
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magnet · Guru Joined: 16 Mar 2003 Posts: 582 Location: france

you don t need to boot from the live CD , check out the gentoo alternative installation guide :
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml

there is a section about installing gentoo from another linux distro , I think this will works in your case.
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