Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Jerry A! <jerry@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 09:07:08
Message-Id: 20010406120738.A695@kabbu.reston.redhat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install by AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
1 On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 05:35:10PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
2 :
3 : If you can boot from a floppy and concurrently acces your cdrom, I can
4 : make you a modified version
5 : of linuxrc that only probes your unmapped cdrom device. Making a floppy
6 : from images/boot-grub.? creating
7 : the device on that floppy and replacing linuxrc should work. Replacing
8 : the kernel on that floppy with a
9 : one that has support for your network card build if the above solution
10 : works should give you the posiibility to
11 : grab the sys.tbz2 via ftp and install it instead of the one on the iso.
12
13 Okay, I'll go ahead and do that. I'm also dd'ing a tomsrbt disk right
14 now as well. Dammit, I'm gonna have Gentoo before the end of the
15 weekend. I need my fix!!!
16
17 So, where's the sys.tbz2 that I should be using?
18
19 --Jerry
20
21 name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
22 phone: 703.599.6023 || matter of life or death...
23 email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
24 || than that!

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Help w/Install AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)