Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

Gontran wrote:
>
> * Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@××××××××.de) wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does your 486 cdrom allow boot off the cdrom?
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, no.  But there is another machine around here with a floppy
> > > that works, come to think of it.  I'll make the floppies there and give it
> > > another try on the cyrix.
> > >
> > I uploaded two disc images to ibiblio
> > gentoo-x86-distro/gentoo-1.0_rc4/images.
> >
> > bootgrub_jerry.img conatins a special linuxrc for jerry, but also it
> > contains
> > additional grub menues to start the the rescue disc. This image contains
> > the same kernel that is
> > on the rc4_pre2 iso, so if the iso does not work, this disc whouldn't
> > work too.
> >
> > I can make you a bootdisk image with a newer kernel if you want.
> >
> > rdisk.gz is the recue disk image.
> >
> > achim~
> >
>
> Thanks Achim.  Turns out I had the same (memory?) problem with the boot floppy
> on the cyrix *shrug*, and my 486 is old as ... well it doesn't have a math
> co-processor.  Frankly, from the specs on the website, gentoo doesn't look
> like it's a 486 kind of party... That seems reasonable to me.
>
You said memeory problem. Hmm, this can be the cause why it did not run
on my compaq laptop (32MB).
If I remeber correct I used 16MB for the default ramdisk size on
rc4_pre2, but that much is not required.
I inform you if I got it installed on my compaq machine.

I run it here on a 486SX/25 system with 16MB ram and two 100MB hds
running as a raid device, since nearly a
year without a problem. But I had to compile all the packages for that
special system , because that time
we used i686 as the default HOST.

> I'm gonna have to go shopping.  Looking forward to helping out.
>
> Rgds,
> Gontran
>
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