[vox-tech] Gentoo installation by NFS?

[Daniel Hurt]

Alot of people make reference to tom's boot disc.  I could not get it 
functioning with my laptop however (My laptop does not have a 
functioning CD drive).  I ended up using a redhat 8.0 boot disc and then 
the Redhat CD shared via NFS (maybe another protocol - it has been a 
year+) to boot into the redhat rescue environment.  This enabled me to 
setup my computer because all the tools were provided in this environment.


Dan Hurt


Bruce Wolk wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
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