What lies ahead is not for the faint of heart.
My laptop has no built in disck drives except a hard drive. I have read
how to install linux on it.
I need one of two things to work in order to insatll gentoo. They are
the ability to use a usb cdrom to install or the ability to mount a vfat
partition that has the iso image on it like with redhats install.
What happens when I try to install is the gentoo installer boots and
then gets to the part later where it tries to mount the cdrom and fails.
It then drops me into a shell and I try this:
mkdir /newroot/mnt/iso
mount -t vfat /dev/hda2 /newroot/mnt/iso
It fails here saying no such device. The thing is that in proc and such
it says that the partion exists
I would then mount the gentoo iso image and continue the install.
Any help would be appriciated.
One idea I was thinking of was installing redhat and then making an
exxt2 partition, putting the iso on that and trying to mount that and
then the iso.
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Thank You,
George Mathews
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