download Gentoo minimal CD ISO
mkdir /downloads
cd /downloads
wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-iso/install-amd64-minimal-20120126.iso
emerge the necessary tools
emerge syslinux on gentoo
#aptitude install syslinux -> but i bypass this part
Note: you can also directly download syslinux and find the mbr.bin inside that bz2 files.
Find your usb flash drive
fdisk -l
Unmount if mounted
umount /dev/sdb1
Clear disk partition table and boot sector
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb count=1024
Create a partition table with 512-byte sectors and a primary partition of type 83 (ext2) with fdisk and make it bootable
fdisk -b 512 /dev/sdb
n p 1 enter enter
t 83
a 1
p
w
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 1009 500433 83 Linux
Formate the partition ext2 and tune it
mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb1
tune2fs -i 0 /dev/sdb1
#aptitude install mbr syslinux mtools extlinux rsync
dn't use it, if u don'y know what will u doing.
install the mbr
mbr-install /dev/sdb
in other ways safe u can install grub or lilo
grub-install /dev/sdb
Note: the listing above is for Debian only. If you are using others, the listing above can be ignored.
download my mbr.bin from this.
extract wherever u cose
in my place : root@fa:/home/fa/syslinux#dd if=/home/fa/syslinux/mbr/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdbmount the usb flash drive and disk image. If the device folder doesn't exist, please create them before conducting the following listing.
mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb
mount -t iso9660 -o loop,user /downloads/install-x86-minimal-2008.0.iso /mnt/cdrom
install the system files
cd /mnt/usb/
cp -r /mnt/cdrom/* /mnt/usb/
mv isolinux extlinux
mv extlinux/isolinux.cfg extlinux/extlinux.conf
rm extlinux/isolinux.bin
rsync -av extlinux
install the bootloader
cd /mnt
extlinux -i /media/usbdisk/extlinux
umount /media/usbdisk
reboot, press F9 then insert gentoo-nofb
Note: Some older machines will not boot a usb formatted in ext2.
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