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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 13:44:46
Message-Id: 3ACE2490.68663074@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 07:15:02PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > :
5 > : The alternative is to get this iso working an and use it as a rescue
6 > : system. At the moment linuxrc scans
7 > : /dev/hd[a-d] /dev/scd[0-1]. I'm planing to replace it with a devfs
8 > : version then I must only scan /dev/cdrom/*.
9 > : I attached a special linuxrc that only scans /dev/fd0, /dev/hdc and
10 > : /dev/hde additionally it outputs all kernel
11 > : messages to the console. Additionally it does not test if a version file
12 > : exists on the cd. Make sure that the devices exist on the boot-floppy.
13 >
14 > Okay, call me stupid. How can I crank out a Gentoo boot-floppy? Also,
15 > I'm out of the office now so I won't be able to burn a CD. Think I'll
16 > be able to use this floppy and the existing rc4_pre2 cdrom I have?
17 >
18 > Oh, and what about that build.tbz2?
19 >
20 I fixed the bug and it is on his way to
21
22 ftp://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/gentoo-x86-distro/gentoo-1.0_rc4/packages/
23
24 called sys-i686-20010406.tgz. (~78MB). May take a while, I only have a
25 128k uplink here.
26
27 I used gzip for the case that you must use a rescue disc for the
28 installation that does not come with bzip2.
29
30 achim~
31 > --Jerry
32 >
33 > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
34 > phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
35 > email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
36 > || than that!
37 >
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