Bug 17093 – There's no way to install 1.4 from USB CD-ROM, eg. laptop w/o removable drives.

• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Morten Liebach 2003-03-08 11:46:09 UTC]

The only way to install 1.4 seems to be from a live filesystem, but since
there's no support on the CD for USB CD-ROM drives and my laptop doesn't have
any kind of removable drives (except for USB) I can't install Gentoo 1.4.
Booting with "gentoo cdcache" does not provide any tools to go further.
1.2 works BTW.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and burn gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc3.iso.
2. Boot CD with "gentoo cdcache".
3. Poke around and see you're at a dead end ...

Actual Results:  
I gave up and continued to use FreeBSD. :)

Expected Results:  
I would like to see as complete a system in memory as 1.2 had.  It worked.

My laptop is an IBM ThinkPad X20.

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-03-11 00:41:29 UTC]

Assigning this to livewire so that he can start looking into USB CD-ROM support in the initrd. 

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2003-03-11 00:42:22 UTC]

Assigning this to livewire so that he can start looking into USB CD-ROM support in the initrd. 

[Comment 3 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-03-11 06:12:38 UTC]

i believe i already have whats needed in latest 
www.gentoo.org/~livewire , please reply back if it works. 

[Comment 4 Andrew Cooks (RETIRED) 2003-11-25 01:43:04 UTC]

Please reopen if it's still relevant.

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:53 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.