I was forced to use Windows exclusively for past couple of months due to various reasons and I was missing my Gentoo installation a lot. As a New Year's gift to my computer I decided to reinstall the whole thing, because the installation has been quite dated with lot of unused packages, many obsolete flags and still on gcc 3.4
I was thinking how to do the installation most conveniently, but eventually decided to wipe the whole installation away and keep only
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/shadow
- /etc/fstab
- /home/
Accidentally I managed to delete my /lib folder while doing the cleanup and was left with non working system :)
Because my computer doesn't have any working CD/DVD drives and can't boot from USB, I was really happy Grub can find kernel images on FAT32 partitions
So I downloaded the Gentoo LiveCD, unpacked it to my Windows harddrive and restarted the computer
kernel (hd0,0)/gentoo_livecd/isolinux/gentoo initrd (hd0,0)/gentoo_livecd/isolinux/gentoo.igz boot
The kernel got loaded and to my extreme surprise the gentoo.igz ramdisk contains a minimal shell with busybox, so I was able to do all the mounting, deleting and copying files I needed. Yeey from Gentoo and Linux.
So guess what I'm doing now? Compiling... :)
4 comments:
Still compiling? :P
Yeah, pretty much :)
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