Requirements:
* Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD ISO
* +1GB USB Flash Drive
* syslinux mtools lilo must be available
USB Gentoo Reference:
NOTICE: If you use Gentoo and want to do this, you already know your way around linux, there is no point in making a baby step tutorial.
1. If you don’t have Gentoo LiveCD yet, download it
kopete http://bouncer.gentoo.org/fetch/gentoo-2007.0-livecd/x86/
2. Mount LiveCD
2.A Mount LiveCD ISO
mount -o loop path/to/iso /mnt/cdrom
2.B Mount already burned LiveCD
3. Plug in your CLEAN USB Flash Drive
* Make sure nothing auto-mounted
Create your own version of this partition layout:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdx1 * 1 789 782657 6 FAT16
4. Format the new partition
mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n gentoo /dev/sdx1
5. Prepare for a Bootable USB drive
syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
6. Mount ‘gentoo’ ( /dev/sdx1 )
6. Copy everything in the LiveCD on to the new ‘gentoo’ usb partition.
7. Move everything in the ‘isolinux’ directory on the ‘gentoo’ usb partition to the root of that same partition.
8. RMDIR the now empty ‘isolinux’ directory.
8. Rename the isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
6. Unmount ‘gentoo’ ( /dev/sdx1 )
10. Make sure it’s bootable:
lilo -M /dev/sdx
11. That’s it!
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