http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=57754
Do you have another system to do this with?? Or maybe you can get the topic creator to link you to his. > -----Original Message----- > From: The Doctor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Jon Fox > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 3:03 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on a Laptop with usb cdrom and no floppy > > > 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. > > I can't seem to get my gentoo disk to boot properly as the > mounting doesn't want to use a usb cdrom on the LiveCD. > > I get: > mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on > /newroot/mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory. > > -- CD Not found > > and I have a busybox prompt. But no modules that seem to give > scsi simulation and thus can't mount the cdrom. > > Unless somebody has a better suggestion on how to get a > working filesystem, I'm going to try a debian install and > bootstrap from there. > > -- Jon/mycr0ft > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
