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From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:17:18
Message-Id: 3ACDE5F0.C0199AEC@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install by Jerry A!
1 "Jerry A!" wrote:
2 >
3 > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > :
5 > : If you can boot from a floppy and concurrently acces your cdrom, I can
6 > : make you a modified version
7 > : of linuxrc that only probes your unmapped cdrom device. Making a floppy
8 > : from images/boot-grub.? creating
9 > : the device on that floppy and replacing linuxrc should work. Replacing
10 > : the kernel on that floppy with a
11 > : one that has support for your network card build if the above solution
12 > : works should give you the posiibility to
13 > : grab the sys.tbz2 via ftp and install it instead of the one on the iso.
14 >
15 > Okay, I'll go ahead and do that. I'm also dd'ing a tomsrbt disk right
16 > now as well. Dammit, I'm gonna have Gentoo before the end of the
17 > weekend. I need my fix!!!
18 >
19 > So, where's the sys.tbz2 that I should be using?
20
21 I'm building it right now should be available in an hour. Hope you don't
22 get a cold turkey till then.
23 Your unmapped cdrom is on /dev/floppy or what?
24
25 achim~
26
27 >
28 > --Jerry
29 >
30 > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
31 > phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
32 > email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
33 > || than that!
34 >
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