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On Thursday 18 September 2003 22:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried to recompile the kernel from my working system (SuSE 8.1), but no
> luck.
>
> I tried to make a boot floppy during the initial creation of Gentoo, but I
> guess the kernel is too big, and I did not discover the boot floppy did not
> work until I rebooted and needed it.
>
> It seems my only option is to reinstall Gentoo again and start over since
> menuconfig or genkernel wont from my working Linux. But is there another
> way?

Erm, the power of chroot negates almost all need to reinstall.
Once you've chroot'd into your gentoo install from Suse, Suse doesn't exist 
anymore and you are using gentoo.

Just boot into Suse, mount the partitions, chroot in and recompile the kernel, 
as per the installation instructions.

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Mike Williams
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