You won't be able to chroot from tomsrtbt. When I needed to do a floppy-based install, I had to make my own 2.4.20 kernel and rebuild the disk image, which isn't terribly hard, but requires a functional installed Linux. See: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=27951 for other alternatives. -Heschi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:53 AM Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Create a new grub only partition? Looking for ideas.
> > > 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. > > Thanks for your help, > Mark > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
