Upgrade Sabayon without booting off liveDVD

[nebster]

My original question is marked below.

Basic How-to copy to harddrive and install it
1- Make a new Primary partition that is over the size of the iso. Format it as ext2
Notes: Logical partitions do not work. This is because of grub sending the wrong data to the second boot loader

2- Mount the partition as /mnt/isoroot

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mkdir /mnt/isoroot
mount /dev/partition /mnt/isoroot

3- Mount the iso with:

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mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/iso /mnt/iso

4- Now copy all the files over:

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cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/isoroot/

5- Next, you need to copy all the isolinux/ files out, so:

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cp -r /mnt/isoroot/isolinux/* /mnt/isoroot/

6- We'll be using extlinux so:

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mv /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.cfg /mnt/isoroot/extlinux.conf

7- We need to delete all the isolinux files apart from the boot text, so:

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mv /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.txt /mnt/isoroot/isolin.txt
rm -rf /mnt/isoroot/isolinux*
mv /mnt/isoroot/isolin.txt /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.txt

8- Next, you need to emerge syslinux and install the boot loader to the partition:

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emerge syslinux
extlinux --install /mnt/isoroot

9- Finally, add it to grub.conf. Open it up and add:

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TITLE Sabayon Installer
  rootnoverify (Drive,Partition)
  chainloader +1

-----------------------ORIGINAL QUESTION-----------------------

Hi, I want to install the latest version of sabayon without having to burn it to a DVD.
Would it be possible?
I'm currently using Sabayon miniEdition and I want to upgrade to the full version (beta if possible)

[wolfden]

You shouldn't upgrade to beta on your production machine. Beta is for testing and there will be several version of beta rolling out.

Anyway, what you are looking to do is possible, mount the iso image. There isn't much documentation on doing this, but if you search you can find your answer as people have done it.

[nebster]

Yes, do you mean mount it with:

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sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/Sabayon.iso

Then what? Is there an install I can run or do I have to copy off the files?
Also, Do I mount the inner fs file as well?

Thanks

[chickpea]

coming soon, you will be able to do this via equo, which will provide a more (dare I say) ubuntuesqe update model.

[wolfden]

My original question is marked below.

Basic How-to copy to harddrive and install it
1- Make a new Primary partition that is over the size of the iso. Format it as ext2
Notes: Logical partitions do not work. This is because of grub sending the wrong data to the second boot loader

2- Mount the partition as /mnt/isoroot

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mkdir /mnt/isoroot
mount /dev/partition /mnt/isoroot

3- Mount the iso with:

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mkdir /mnt/iso
mount -o loop -t iso9660 /path/to/iso /mnt/iso

4- Now copy all the files over:

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cp -r /mnt/iso/* /mnt/isoroot/

5- Next, you need to copy all the isolinux/ files out, so:

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cp -r /mnt/isoroot/isolinux/* /mnt/isoroot/

6- We'll be using extlinux so:

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mv /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.cfg /mnt/isoroot/extlinux.conf

7- We need to delete all the isolinux files apart from the boot text, so:

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mv /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.txt /mnt/isoroot/isolin.txt
rm -rf /mnt/isoroot/isolinux*
mv /mnt/isoroot/isolin.txt /mnt/isoroot/isolinux.txt

8- Next, you need to emerge syslinux and install the boot loader to the partition:

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emerge syslinux
extlinux --install /mnt/isoroot

9- Finally, add it to grub.conf. Open it up and add:

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TITLE Sabayon Installer
  rootnoverify (Drive,Partition)
  chainloader +1

-----------------------ORIGINAL QUESTION-----------------------

Hi, I want to install the latest version of sabayon without having to burn it to a DVD.
Would it be possible?
I'm currently using Sabayon miniEdition and I want to upgrade to the full version (beta if possible)

You should add this to the wiki as many are interested in this

as chickpea said, equo --world is available too

[nebster]

You should add this to the wiki as many are interested in this

as chickpea said, equo --world is available too

Yeah, but using equo is really only for those who have gentoo/Sabayon already. This can also be used by other dists.

e.g. Installing Sabayon from a Ubuntu LiveCD

[Element]

About how big should the ext2 partition be? I need this for more specific wiki information

[nebster]

About how big should the ext2 partition be? I need this for more specific wiki information

Over the size of the iso to be safe(add a few mb like 50) Just make sure everything can be copied over and it'll work I think

[zhw]

I'm trying to do the same thing the OP is. I got everything fine up until "emerge syslinux" and then "extlinux --install etc". I emerged syslinux, but my old sabayon install doesn't recognize the command extlinux. I tried in Ubuntu using apt-get instead of emerge and now it recognizes "extlinux" but it doesn't recognize "--install". Did I do something wrong? Is there another way to install extlinux?

Edit: Okay, I figured it out. I still couldn't get the extlinux command to work in Sabayon or do what I wanted in Ubuntu, but I had a Knoppix CD that worked just fine with it, so I used that. The snippet of text given for GRUB didn't work, but I solved that by editing the Windows entry to point to a different partition, and then Sabayon insisted on looking for the installation media on /dev/sr0 instead of sdb2 where it actually was, and I got around that be removing the IDE cable from my CD drive. Worked great after that.

[kraemer]

About how big should the ext2 partition be? I need this for more specific wiki information

By chance have you completed your wiki addition, and if so can you post the link? I'd like to add it to my list of support links in the event I come across anybody else that may benefit from the info