Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I've found the Slackware path being a 'very simple' way of getting Gentoo > installed on some of my more hardware-challenged computers. Initially I > resisted, thinking that "Gentoo should be able to do this on it's own", and > that "I don't want to learn yet another distro", but finally I gave in. ;-) > Slackware rocks for this purpose. (Not to say that it's less good in other > areas.) > > BTW, I found http://www.kerstner.org/tutorials/gentoo_floppyinstall.html to > be very helpful. (It's not an absolute step-by-step guide, but very close.) > > And yes, four empty floppies cannot be that hard to find. Look in your old > drawers. Look in some old socks in your wardrobe. (Doh!) Old diskettes tend > to lay around in the most remarkble spots in your house. Even if only some > of them works with format today, you will surely come up with enough to get > four working floppies. And then, you will clean out some old ones that > don't work any more to the dust bin. > > If you really, really, really do not have any floppies at home any more, > then you might just go out and buy a set. They are quite cheap these days. >
I've managed to get it going now, using slackware's "zipslack" install that puts a 100 MB partition with a working linux on your harddrive. This made it very easy (once I'd figured out how to get the network up and running). However, not that I think it's going to stop the install from working, but I don't have a "mirrorselect" program anywhere in the stage1 system, so I don't know how I should set it up to use mirror.ac.uk rather than whatever it defaults to. Can you offer any hints? Many thanks in advance, Al -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
