Why not use a Gentoo LiveCD and boot from it. It's got
everything you need to run a system.
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 09:09:37 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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