> > > 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
Heschi, Thanks for the info. Certainly this will same me some time even if it is a bit disappointing. I have a working Gentoo box here in the office, so I might try what you're talking about, assuming there are some instructions in the user forums you're pointing me towards, but I think that rebuilding the disk image may be a bit beyond me. I'm really down in the totally-novice area of Linux. This brings me back to the other 50% of the problem I wanted to solve. Today I have System Commander on this system, and presumably in the Master Boot Record since that's what boots first. SC7 then gave me choices to go to Mandrake or Gentoo. Both Mandrake and Gentoo had grub installed in their partitions, and from there I could choose which kernel I wanted to boot. In Mandrake's case I also booted Redhat from it's grub installation. I would like to get rid of SC7 completely. However, if I just remove it then I think the system will only boot Windows. To do this, wouldn't I want/need to install grub in the MBR of this drive? I think this can be done without messing up the minimal windows installation on /dev/hda1 and not mess up my Linux stuff on hda3/4/5/6/7/8/9, can't it? Or do I just make any partition with grub bootable and that will get the process kicked off and running? Again, I am ABSOLUTELY sure that I could just do another Gentoo or Redhat installation somewhere on the drive and somehow get things fixed, but I want to get rid of SC7 also, so I need to figure out what to do with the MBR. (fdisk /mbr from a DOS floppy?) Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
