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I recently managed to install Gentoo on a laptop that had no cd-rom and |
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only a USB floppy, the laptop did have a built in eepro100 though. |
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I had to create my own custom floppy that just brought up enough of the |
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networking system to download the i686 stage 3 tarball. I extracted and |
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chrooted and it worked! |
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I do believe its possible to create a single disk installer for Gentoo |
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for a specific ethernet card/chip. |
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Greg |
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On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 16:29, Sanity in Anarchy wrote: |
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> I would like some bootdisk besides a CD for those of us who don't have CD |
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> burners. In fact, it would be really nice if I could just rawrite the ISO to |
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> my future root partition and boot it from there, but there aren't very good |
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> instructions on how to do this. |
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> One of the reasons I like Linux so much is that it's free at best (free as in |
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> beer) and at worst is cheap. But it won't be cheap if I have to buy a CD |
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> burner just to try out a cool-looking distro. |
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> I'll probably have this solved (for myself, at least) by the time you get back |
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> to me, but at least provide a couple of shell scripts or something for one of |
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> the many bootdisks already out there. |
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> Thanks, and keep up the good work. |
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