installing off hard drive

rekonrad · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 3:11 am Post subject: installing off hard drive

Unfortunately, my cd writer just gave up the ghost....so is there a way I can install Gentoo of my hard drive?

I"ve used Peanut, Vector, Slackware and Redhat so I'm fascinated to see this well spoken of distribution.

ctford0 · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:07 am Post subject:

If you have another version of linux installed already you can install gentoo from it onto another partition or another hard drive even. There is a ton of documentation on the forum how to do this.

Chris

dol-sen · Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2003 5:20 am Post subject:

If the iso image is available to your current linux you can use the loopback mount command to mount the image like it was actually on a cd. This will allow you to use the stage build you have, or you could opt to download the latest one from the cvs and not use the iso you downloaded.
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