On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Frank Peters <frank.pet...@comcast.net> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 14:15:56 -0700 > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml >> >> Don't know if it works but like all things Gentoo I suspect it does... >> > > That's the first thing that I tried, but it does not seem to involve > the Gentoo Live DVD. > > For example, after following the procedure one comes to the point: > > "Download the Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD for your architecture > from your local Gentoo Linux mirror ..." > > Huh? What happened to the Live DVD iso stuff? It's not mentioned. > > I ended up using Unetbootin from an MS Windows machine to copy the Gentoo > Live DVD iso to a USB thumb drive. I'm just wondering if there is a CLI > procedure to copy same from Linux. > > Frank Peters > >
I guess I'm misunderstanding a fine point here in terms of what you want to do. Immediately following those words the process does: (Create the /mnt/cdrom mount point if needed) # mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom # mount -o loop,ro -t iso9660 /path/to/iso.iso /mnt/cdrom So it seems to mount the ISO image. Is there anything other than a "Gentoo Weekly Minimal Install CD" anymore? Would it matter if it was a minimal ISO or something more complicated? I don't know. In my case I was looking into building a new machine that wouldn't have a CD, so I was wondering about using a USB drive vs maybe an external USB CDROM drive. If you are doing something where you require lots and lots of prebuilt programs on the USB drive then this ISO wouldn't be appropriate. Good luck, Mark
