Following advice given to me on the 9th, I've been using the Handbook and trying out different approaches.
Yesterday, I went right through (using gentoo-sources and genkernel to see how that went). All seemed fine, and I'm sure I have a good basic install to start me off. Unfortunately, I can't boot the install at all. My preferred way is to build a bzDisk, and later put lilo on a floppy. Earlier, when I compiled my own kernel (also from gentoo-sources) and tried to run 'make bzDisk', I got an error 'no target'. I thought this strange but continued to 'make bzImage'. For the final run through with genkernel, there was no choice, but that's no problem - I'll put lilo on a floppy right away. Wrong! I'm told 'no such device' whilst /dev/fd0 exists and this error continues to be so no matter what I put into /etc/fstab. Nowhere in the literature, or the massive forum archives can I find an help. Whilst looking in /dev, I also noticed there were no /cdroms to be seen, but the /etc/fstab has '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 etc'. That's really confused me, and I feel very stupid as by now this is the type of problem I ought to be able to solve. Can anyone assist me again please. As I have two Debian installations on a large disk, I have had to use hda7 (32M) as /boot and hda8 (6Gig) as /, I don't know if this is of interest. Regards, John. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
