[vox-tech] Gentoo installation by NFS?

[Bruce Wolk]

Jonathan Stickel said the following on 07/09/04 13:19:
> Although I have only installed Gentoo off of the Gentoo-install 
> self-booting CD, I think you can install from anything that gives you a 
> shell with enough tools.  The gentoo disk provides binary snapshots of 
> installation files, but these can be downloaded directly instead.  I 
> recently saw a report of installing gentoo after booting off of KNOPPIX.
> 
> Generally, the install process goes like this (for stage 3):
> 1) boot to a shell (from cd, floppy, or network?)
> 2) prepare disk partitions (e.g. fdisk); reboot if necessary for 
> partition tables
> 3) mount partitions
> 4) acquire (e.g. download) the appropriate stage 3 root snapshot
> 5) untar the snapshot onto what will be your new root partition
> 6) chroot to your new root partition
> 7) continue installing via gentoo commands and tools (emerge stuff)
> 
> HTH,
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> Henry House wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone know how to install Gentoo using an NFS mount instead of a 
>> CD? I
>> am keen to try installing Gentoo but my only spare machine lacks a 
>> bootable
>> CD-ROM. The logical first step would seem to be a rescue floppy, but a 
>> few
>> minutes searching on Gentoo's site and the 'Net turned up no such item.

Jonathan's method will work--I just did essentially the same thing on my 
server, an old 500MHz Pentium III with 128MB.  Apache, mysql, and php 
are just purring along.  Take a look at

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml

By the way, don't forget to mount proc like I did on my first attempt!

Bruce