Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: George Shapovalov <georges@×××××××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Loadlin install ?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 02:49:10
Message-Id: 200205200045.14443.georges@its.caltech.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Loadlin install ? by Stephane Dudzinski
1 Please take a look at #311
2 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311
3 The last comment seems to be related to such situation.
4 I don't think you will be able to use loadlin to boot CD image directly,
5 however you still can get a kernel and "resque" image/disk and use loadlin on
6 this pair.
7
8 George
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10
11 On Wednesday 15 May 2002 06:11, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
12 > Hello,
13 >
14 > I've been asking this via IRC but nobody could reply to me. I would love
15 > to install gentoo on a machine without floppy or bootable CD-ROM drive.
16 > It's got DOS, so i can currently boot in it and load loadlin, worked
17 > like a charm with Debian 2.2
18 >
19 > Now, i would like to do the same with gentoo. I thought i would use
20 > isolinux's images on the CD but it fails any single time.
21 >
22 > Anyone tried before and furthermore, succedeed ?
23 >
24 > Thanks,
25 > Steph