[Lancaster] Fwd: boot from a external hard drive

[Wayne Ward]

Yes we have had conversations about the learning curve involved in the 
gentoo install
Its a bit of a task but pays of in knowledge gained :-)

regards
wayne

jonath wrote:
> AH HA!
>
> I've worked it out! I was sending messages from j at jonath.co.uk and not
> from lug at jonath.co.uk, which is what I was subscribed as. It all makes
> sense now.
>
> Still not sure whether my previous messages are gonna be 'approved' or
> not. Anyway . . . moving on.
>
> The moment's probably long since gone regarding Rik and his query
> about Gentoo but, nonetheless, I don't think anyone's yet touched on
> the difficulties of Gentoo. Not to put anyone off, mind, but rather as
> a reminder that nothing worth having ever came easy . . .
>
> jonathan
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: jonath <j at jonath.co.uk>
> Date: 2009/4/26
> Subject: Re: [Lancaster] boot from a external hard drive
> To: lancaster at mailman.lug.org.uk
>
>
> Rik,
>
> I've been using Gentoo for over 6 years now and have it installed on my main
> PC (which, poor thing, is used as a desktop machine, a database server and a
> web server), my lap-top (which doesn't do a lot these day but works fine with
> its wireless ethernet and what-not) and my living room 'shuttle' PC (or
> whatever you call them, basically a quiet, tiny, inobstrustive,
> AMD-based 'multimedia' PC).
>
> I say all this not as some idle boast but rather to lend credence to the
> following: I have some experience with Gentoo.
>
> The thing with Gentoo is that it can be a bitch to set-up right but, once it's
> working, you'll have a pretty rock-solid system, configured exactly as you
> want it. From experience, I would say that this level of configuration comes
> at a cost: your time. You need to invest a lot of your time to get Gentoo
> set-up right.
>
> Thing is, though, if you want to install Gentoo, as with any Linux
> distribution, you'll need either a dedicated virtual or physical PC. Live CDs
> don't really cut it, not if you want a proper installation of Linux.
>
> It is possible to install Gentoo virtually using any decent virtualisation
> application, such as VMware (although, I believe, only available on a free
> 30-day evaluation license) or VirtualBox. As may be obvious from the above,
> I've only installed Gentoo on physical PCs but there's no reason why it
> shouldn't work fine on a virtual PC. I'm a big fan of VirtualBox, so I would
> personally give that one a try. I've been able to run virtual instances of
> Windows XP and Debian fine through VirtualBox.
>
> Once you've got a physical/virtual PC available, boot from a Gentoo CD . . . a
> x86 version is available here:
>
> http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86/current/install-x86-minimal-20090422.iso
>
> and then it's 'just' (he laughed) a matter of following the installation
> instructions:
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml
>
> Seriously. Read and follow the instructions. It's the only way. I've learnt
> this from bitter experience and many wasted hours.
>
> I would also say, if you're happy with RedHat/Fedora/SuSe/Ubuntu/Debian then I
> wouldn't bother with Gentoo. Life's too short. Personally, I tried all of
> them, hated them, and then found what I was after in Gentoo, but to use that
> tired old cliche, your milage may vary.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jonathan Machell
>
> On Saturday 25 April 2009, Rik Boland wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I want to get started on Gento but I don't have another machine to work
>> with, nor do I want on, so is it all possible to use a external hard
>> drive in a caddy and to boot it up that way?
>>
>> I hope that makes sense and I hope you can.
>>
>> If you can how easy is it to do it?
>>
>> Shalom
>>
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