On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 12:40, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
Isn't stage 3 compiled for a 686 or higher?? That wouldn't work on a older computer install..
Its really kinda of perplexing to me that gentoo can't just create a floppy install. All you need is just a few tools to get linux up, run fdisk and so forth, grab the stage you need and run off...
I have seen people who are more than willing to create the floppy img, but I never see it available on the web site.-----Original Message-----
From: HvR [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 2:36 PM
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing without CDs
do a stage3 install and then once it is running recompile the world with emerge -uDe world (after you tuned your USE and CFLAG settings)
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 09:17, A. S. Budden wrote: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 listThus 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
