Re: [gentoo-accessibility] installing gentoo

[William Hubbs]

Hi again Dave,

I am not familiar with free bsd, so I can't tell you for sure if you could install from there.  I don't think it is possible though.

I don't know of a way to install gentoo from a floppy either.

I know of a boot manager you could install on a floppy (at least in theory -- I don't know how easy it would be to use) that would let you boot from the floppy then transfer over to the cd rom.  It is at http://btmgr.sourceforge.net.  Again, I haven't used this so I don't know how accessible it is.

William

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 01:40:27PM -0500, awesome-dave1@××××.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 	Thanks, my problem is  i don't have a box that will boot off of a
> CD-rom. I'm wondering about a boot floppy, or accessibility through
> tftp/nfs? And i just got this idea, I've got a dual boot box, the first
> hard disk is where i want to install gentoo, the second drive has a test
> FreeBSD system, can i load the installer on that?
> Thanks.
> Dave.
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004 11:55:34 -0600 "William Hubbs" <w.hubbs@×××××××.net>
> writes:
> > Dave,
> >
> > when I originally installed gentoo, I had linux on the machine
> > already, so I just set up another partition as the new root
> > partition and installed from the already running linux.
> >
> > As far as I know (Deedra, please correct me if I am wrong), the
> > 2004.0 gentoo live cd has speakup built into the kernel, so just
> > boot it up and when you get to the prompt type
> >
> > gentoo speakup_synth=xxxx
> >
> > where the xxxx is your synthesizer to get it to come up talking.
> >
> > William
> >
> >
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> >
> >
>
>
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