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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:44:04
Message-Id: 200307251844.03636.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies by "C. Brewer"
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4 On Friday 25 July 2003 14:52, C. Brewer wrote:
5 > Just out of curiosity, are you aiming for a sort of gentooish tom's, or a
6 > generic boot the existing w/o a loader (rh style) or enough of a workable
7 > root system to mount a cd and install (ala debian?) I'm personally more
8 > interested in the latter, as I currently use debian's first two boot
9 > floppies to help people get linux on older machines that don't boot from
10 > the cd.
11
12 the idea is to do make a boot floppy that allows you to install Gentoo :)
13
14 so, we'd be aiming for bootloader + kernel (2.6.x does not support the
15 oldschool 1 disk w/out bootloader style) + workable env to setup your fs, d/l
16 a tarball, and chroot from there ...
17 uClibc has proven to provide small binaries so we can fit a lot on 1 disk :)
18 probably be looking at the 2 disk series in order to get it all ... 1 disk
19 w/kern + modules and another disk w/all the utilities you need to setup your
20 system for the chroot.
21
22 like i said, i need help with the bootloader stage to keep this thing going
23 - -mike
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies Terje Kvernes <terjekv@××××××××.no>
[gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies "C. Brewer" <cbrewer@×××××××××××××.net>