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Bug 17093 - There's no way to install 1.4 from USB CD-ROM, eg. laptop w/o removable drives.
Summary: There's no way to install 1.4 from USB CD-ROM, eg. laptop w/o removable drives.
Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Release Media
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Everything (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High blocker (vote)
Assignee: Bob Johnson (RETIRED)
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Reported: 2003-03-08 11:46 UTC by Morten Liebach
Modified: 2005-03-25 11:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 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) gentoo-dev 2003-11-25 01:43:04 UTC
Please reopen if it's still relevant.
Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 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.