P� s�ndag, 11 juli 2004, skrev Bruce Wolk: [...] > >Generally, the install process goes like this (for stage 3): > >1) boot to a shell (from cd, floppy, or network?) > >2) prepare disk partitions (e.g. fdisk); reboot if necessary for > >partition tables > >3) mount partitions > >4) acquire (e.g. download) the appropriate stage 3 root snapshot > >5) untar the snapshot onto what will be your new root partition > >6) chroot to your new root partition > >7) continue installing via gentoo commands and tools (emerge stuff) [...] > Jonathan's method will work--I just did essentially the same thing on my > server, an old 500MHz Pentium III with 128MB. Apache, mysql, and php > are just purring along. Take a look at > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
Thanks, Bruce and Jonathan! I will report how it goes after I finish. I ran into a new snag: the floppy drive does not work! I think either the drive or the cable are defective. But fortunately the machine has a working PXE bootrom that can load Linux via ethernet. -- Henry House Please don't send me HTML mail! My mail system will reject it. The unintelligible text that may follow is a digital signature. See <http://hajhouse.org/pgp> to find out how to use it. My OpenPGP key: <http://hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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