On Thursday 06 March 2003 05:46, Kevin J. Anderson wrote: > > The only thing I would add is that I dont know of a gentoo-designed way to > start from a bootable floppy rather than one of the gentoo cdroms. > Although, I am sure its just a matter of downloading for example a rootboot > disk http://www.toms.net/rb/ configuring your network, disks, downloading > which ever stage you wanted to start from, and then chrooting like you > usually do. This would have to work, because if you can chroot from > another hard disk based install, you should be able to chroot from the > floppy. > > In fact, I'm actually suprised no one has made a floppy sans stage files > etc to boot w/ then dl the rest from there onto the box's hard drives. >
This is very possible. They only reason that no floppy is provided is that there are good floppy distributions available, and there is no way to put a 2.4 kernel with enough drivers on it to make everyone happy on a disk that also carries a (small) root system. A CD does not have such problems thus requires far less maintenance. Floppy distro's need lots of tweaking, and toms disk does this well, so there's no need for gentoo to provide another one. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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