Installing Sabayon 3.4 without DVD

[ScottishDuckHunter]

Any ideas?

I dont want to world update because i dont want to lose all my configs and files if it goes wrong.

I used up all my DVD's, my DVD-RW's dont work and i only have 4 CD's left (curse my constant distro changes).

Actually. Is it possible to use the Vista method and place the files within the .iso into a small partition and boot that?

[andrewg]

i havent installed sabayon yet myself, going to just trying to get my hands on teh dvd images, (downloaded them at work but screwed it up caus they were over 2gb) anyways,


i would imagine putting the files on a seperate partiton and then modifying grub or lilo to have an entry for that partition and then boot that would be fine

of couse i could be oversimplifying things

[matsyes]

Its possible to install sabayon dvd using a usb drive.
All you have to do is make the usb device bootable and have syslinux installed on it. Also have the squash.fs file on an ext3 partition on any other device. Once you get to the sylinux prompt make a directory. Mount the squash.fs file into that directory using the loop switch. Then load the loop device that is made in the process.
This will allow you to run the live dvd. Once the live dvd is running you can mount the squash.fs image in the /mnt/livecd folder that already exists and then run the installer to complete the process.

[totedati]

I used up all my DVD's, my DVD-RW's dont work and i only have 4 CD's left (curse my constant distro changes).

and you are running out of cash !? !? i donate you a 10 DVD-RW set if you can jump to my home and grab it ....

seriously ... the best cheap way is to backup all you relevant custom config files, scribe somewhere what packages is important, and want to update after sabayon v3.4 install, do as many backup's as you need, remember in this day you not backup small config files to dvd but to usb pendisk ... and do a fresh loopXXX install ....

good luck to you ...

[mktyap]

Its possible to install sabayon dvd using a usb drive.
All you have to do is make the usb device bootable and have syslinux installed on it. Also have the squash.fs file on an ext3 partition on any other device. Once you get to the sylinux prompt make a directory. Mount the squash.fs file into that directory using the loop switch. Then load the loop device that is made in the process.
This will allow you to run the live dvd. Once the live dvd is running you can mount the squash.fs image in the /mnt/livecd folder that already exists and then run the installer to complete the process.

Well said but how in cli please. I bittorent the iso image onto my HD and as root
>mount -o loop SabayonLinux-x86-3.4.Loop3a.iso /mnt/disk
>cp -av --preserve /mnt/disk /mnt/target
I had my grub floppy menu.lst file with the following lines:

title Live-DVD-Sabayon 3.4 loop 3a
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/sabayon max_loop=64 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 rw from=/dev/sdb3 root=/dev/sdb3\
unionfs cdroot looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs splash=verbose,theme:sabayon vga=791\
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet dodmraid pci=nomsi acpi=off doscsi
initrd /boot/sabayon.igz
boot

EDIT: (having checked md5sum correctly in download iso)
On booting I had outputs of "Activating mdev, Device-Mapper, unionfs, ramdisk" then
"Attempting to mount /dev/sr0...with success... image found at /dev/sdc3 mounted"
/sbin/agetty: unable to execute binary file...
INIT: Id "c4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes (same for "c1" to "c5")
CTL/ALT/DEL to error running /sbin/depscan.sh and hang!

What did I do wrong... Or did I do too much?

[totedati]

title Live-DVD-Sabayon 3.4 loop 3a
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/sabayon max_loop=64 init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 rw from=/dev/sdb3 root=/dev/sdb3\
unionfs cdroot looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs splash=verbose,theme:sabayon vga=791\
CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 quiet dodmraid pci=nomsi acpi=off doscsi
initrd /boot/sabayon.igz

i'm not sure 100% but root=/dev/ram0 rw from=/dev/sdb3 root=/dev/sdb3 is correct? i mean, to me, real root lock like this:

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title sabayon linux v3.3
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-sabayon-r3  root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda1  quiet  init=/linuxrc splash=silent,theme:sabayon vga=791 CONSOLE=/dev/tty1 pci=nomsi
        initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.20-sabayon-r3


is true is a older version of sabayon ... but two root= look redundant ... maybe one should be real_root?
and is also true that mine is a real instalation and yours is a stuffed livedvd session ....

[mktyap]

is true is a older version of sabayon ... but two root= look redundant ... maybe one should be real_root?
and is also true that mine is a real instalation and yours is a stuffed livedvd session ....

Thanks for responding, finally.
I ve tried real_root=/dev/sdb3 with same result of /sbin/depscan.sh failure and respawning too fast and hang. The interesting thing is that it took a while to boot while it looks for the image on my CD drive /dev/sr0 and finally finding the image in /dev/sdb3, processing udev, etc until depscan failure.

This thread is on booting w/o burning a DVD and by Poorman's install I intended to boot LiveDVD from /dev/sdb3 partition and then install onto another partition on the same ext-USB-HD.

Anyone else can shed light on the /sbin/depsan.sh thing?