Install Gentoo on the External Hard Disk Drive

• Just follow the Gentoo installation instruction on your external hard disk drive with generic version.
• configure the kernel for using USB, SCSI stuff and compile it.
• check the GRUB configuration for using external hard drive for booting.
• caution !> root (hd0,0) is used as Gentoo guide. Don't change this to root (sd0,0). Your BIOS can automatically recognize your external hard as a hd not sd!

Usage of Pinux

• Prepare a computer which supports BIOS USB Device booting. The computer can be a desktop(Pentium, AMD) or notebook.It doesn't matter.
• Modify your BIOS for booting from USB and reboot your computer.
• While booting, just check whether or not everthing is O.K
• Configure your dns and name server for using the new network.
  • open the resolv.conf

    nano /etc/resolv.conf

  • edit the resolv.conf for editing the dns and name server.

    nameserver 168.124.2.6 nameserver 168.124.2.7 dns cs.luc.edu

  • save the changes and test the network is working.

    ping www.yahoo.com

• If you can not succeed with the ping, please make sure that your dns and name servers are correct.
• Now, you are ready to use the Gentoo Linux as usual and you also can use KDE for GUI environment.

Tips for trouble shooting using PINUX.

• if you have a error with ethernet card while booting, just follow the instruction
  • /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start OR
  • rc-update add net.eth0 default