On Monday 23 Sep 2002 11:32 pm, USM Bish wrote: > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 07:43:07AM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > If anybody has installed gentoo linux from developer iq CD, > > I would like to know the procedure for installing it. > > diq cd contains following folders and files. > > gentoo -isolinux -boot.cat > > -isolinux.bin > > -isolinux.cfg > > -kernel > > -message.txt > > -resque.gz > > -stage1_I.tbZ > > -stage2_I.tbz > > -stage3_I.tbz > > the cd is not bootable. How to go about installing it? > > ---end quoted text--- > > I have NOT installed gentoo, but I get a feeling that the > stuff in /isolinux dir is perhaps boot disk components, > with resque.gz being the initrd image. > > It seems, the stageN_I.tbz files are bzipped tarballs of > the directory tree. Just try "tar -tyvf stageN_I.tbz" and > have a look. output of [root@localhost GENTOO]# tar -tyvf STAGE1_I.TBZ |wc -l -y option is now deprecated for bzip2. Next time, please use -j instead. Compatibility will be removed soon. 3949 it has dev, bin files. [root@localhost GENTOO]# tar -tjvf STAGE2_I.TBZ |wc -l 9496 it has dev, bin, usr, lib files.
stage3 is full system. > Which month's DevIQ is this ? need to have a look ... Sep2002 -- L.V.Gandhi 203, Soundaryalahari Apartments, Lawsons Bay colony, Visakhapatnam, 530017 MECON, 5th Floor, RTC Complex, Visakhapatnam AP 530020 INDIA ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
