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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 13:17:12
Message-Id: 3ACE1E2A.BE806D89@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?
15
16 There is an image for the boot-floppy on the cd in the images subdir. dd
17
18 Also,
19 > I'm out of the office now so I won't be able to burn a CD. Think I'll
20 > be able to use this floppy and the existing rc4_pre2 cdrom I have?
21
22 Yes that must work.
23 >
24 > Oh, and what about that build.tbz2?
25 Had a few troubles with the kernel first. After that I started uploading
26 and found a bug meanwhile whom I'm
27 currently fixing.
28
29 achim~
30 >
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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