---------- quoting Jon Fox ---------- > I've got gentoo running since January on my old HP Omnibook, > but I just for a Dell D400 at work (light and small) > and want to kill off WinXP. However, I need to be able to > boot up something on the new machine which has no ide or > scsi cdrom... just a usb cdrom.
Had exactly the same problem with my "old" Toshiba Portege (only floppy, PCMCIA NIC, and USB CD). So I booted with the Slackware bootdisks, brought PCMCIA up (with Slackware's PCMCIA disk), configured my NIC and viola, everything else like insall doc (wget stageX tarball, install, config, ...). HTH! Matthias -- Mmm ... hamburgers - Homer Simpson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
