On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 07:53:07AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > MOST IMPORTANT! Can you explain just a bit about why I'm > > chroot-ing when I > > > do this? I don't understand chroot at all. If it's not too much > > typing, give > > > me a few commands to sort of start the flow. > > > > Tom's is a very thin Linux (one floppy, after all!). By chrooting > > to your own root disk, you're putting yourself into your installed > > Gentoo environment - albeit running Tom's kernel instead of the one you > > built. Let's say your root disk is /dev/hda3 and you're /boot disk is > > /dev/hda4. I think that Tom's provides a /mnt directory... so do this: > > > > mount /dev/hda3 /mnt > > mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/boot > > > > (and any other things you need to mount). Then: > > > > chroot /mnt > > > > and you'll be in the environment you built - with all the > > commands (like grub) that > > aren't in Tom's environment. From there, you can start repairs. > > Thanks Nathan. Sounds cool. > > Have Tomsrtbt downloaded. Trying to figure out how to make the floppy on an > Win XP Pro machine. Looks like I need to go find a DOS machine.
I think you should be able to do everything in a DOS command window, which is available on every version of Windows and will always be forever and ever, Amen :-). Doesn't Tom's supply a .bat-file you can just double-click from Explorer? Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
