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"Kunal Shah" <s_kunalv@×××××××.com> writes: |
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> Hi, |
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> congratulation on greate work by gentoo team. I was searching for this |
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> sort of distribution. |
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> I am facing a little proble. I downloaded gentoo linux iso of around |
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> 130 Mbs Gentoo 1.2 (stage 3) and burned a cd of it. |
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> but my computer does not support booting from cd rom. |
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> is there any other option ? |
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Grab a copy of tom's floppy boot disk[1], then boot, partition your |
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disks, configure your networking, mount your cdrom and proceed from |
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there with the relevant part of the install guide. There may be |
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something regarding floppy-based installs in the forums... (not |
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certain on that though). |
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Footnotes: |
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[1] http://www.toms.net/rb/ |
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Matthew Kennedy |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Bugs go to http://bugs.gentoo.org! |
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