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|    J.O. Aho to Klaus Hellnick    |
|    Re: Newbie needs help installing Gentoo    |
|    08 Aug 10 06:29:32    |
      From: user@example.net              Klaus Hellnick wrote:              > I have burned a Gentoo live DVD, and can boot off it, but am unable to       > use it to install the OS to a hard drive. I am using a Jetway mini ITX       > motherboard and two 6 GB microdrives (IDE). I have had no problems with       > installing Fedora and Ubunto from CDs, but want to give Gentoo a try.       > I am using a USB external DVD drive.              You would need to do something like:              dd if=image.iso of=/dev/sdb              keep in mind that this will destroy any information you may have on that hard       drive (in this example the secondary hard drive).              If you want to make a proper installation, then follow the instructions in the       installation handbook:       http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml              If you don't want to spend time compiling, then I suggest you use Sabayon       Linux, which is a binary based distribution based on Gentoo:       http://sabayon.it/mirrors                     --               //Aho              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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