Can you install gentoo on a laptop with no floppy or cdrom?

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

just a network card??

Is this possible?

There are other computers on the network, which I can load anything on. I'll have the replacement cdrom for the lappy in a week or 2, but I figure its gonna take that long to get gentoo+progs completely installed on this k6-2 450mhz (full from scratch build, optimized for the k6-2).

Pete_Keller · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:11 pm Post subject:

Makakai

Read the alternate installation guide, section five, (netboot install) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml#doc_chap5. This should do it for you, however, if you have further problems, just let us know in the forum.

Please let us know how it turns out.

Pete

Malakai · Apprentice Joined: 24 Dec 2002 Posts: 299

Pete_Keller · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 8:24 pm Post subject:

[quote="Malakai]I'll get the nic by monday, I'll try this then. I will definately report my experiences. The main problem I forsee is getting it to boot into a gentoo environment, but I'm sure thats what netboot is.

Thanks for the info.[/quote]

Between now and monday, you should be able to boot your laptop into grub off of a floppy. Then it is only a case of loading the nic driver, and starting the install.

Keep us informed, if you find any problems with the alt install doc, let the maintainer know.

Pete

BitJam · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2003 9:25 pm Post subject:

There is a thread going that talks about how to make a usb memory stick that can work as a LiveCD.

Gosh. These would be great things for the Gentoo store.