Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install

[Jerry A!]

On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:51:12PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
: "Jerry A!" wrote:
: > 
: > On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
: > :
: > : If you can boot from a floppy and concurrently acces your cdrom, I can
: > : make you a modified version
: > : of linuxrc that only probes your unmapped cdrom device. Making a floppy
: > : from images/boot-grub.? creating
: > : the device on that floppy and replacing linuxrc should work. Replacing
: > : the kernel on that floppy with a
: > : one that has support for your network card build if the above solution
: > : works should give you the posiibility to
: > : grab the sys.tbz2 via ftp and install it instead of the one on the iso.
: > 
: > Okay, I'll go ahead and do that.  I'm also dd'ing a tomsrbt disk right
: > now as well.  Dammit, I'm gonna have Gentoo before the end of the
: > weekend.  I need my fix!!!
: > 
: > So, where's the sys.tbz2 that I should be using?
: 
: I'm building it right now should be available in an hour. Hope you don't
: get a cold turkey till then.
: Your unmapped cdrom is on /dev/floppy or what?

The unmapped cdrom is recognized as fd0.  There is no /dev/floppy.
However, this is only to boot.  Once the kernel starts up the cdrom will
be probed and recognized as /dev/hdc.  If I have the usb floppy
attached, that will be proved and recognized as usb mass storage device
/dev/sdb.

The more I think about it, the more I may be getting bit by this whole
flakey loop device bug (which is of course fixed in 2.4.3).

        --Jerry

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