[ale] Gentoo Linux install question

[Byron A Jeff]

> 
> > From: Geoffrey [mailto:esoteric at 3times25.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:04 AM
> >
> > Well, everyone's convinced me to check gentoo out, yet it
> > appears it requires a boot from cdrom, which not all bios
> > support.  At least that's what I see in the install section
> > of the web site.
> >
> > Anyone know if you can do a floppy boot for install for gentoo?
> 
> There is an 'Alternative Installation Guide', but apparently there is no
> Gentoo Boot Floppy Image you can d/l and burn.
> 
> http://gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html

Well there's a couple of possibilites:

1) CDROM booting almost always uses a floppy image. Simply pull the image off
   the CD, put it on a floppy and boot with it.

2) Option #3: installing from existing Linux installation, is a possibility.
   If this is a machine with a blank disk, booting off a Slack install disk,
   doing an fdisk to partition, then install the Gentoo tarball from the CD.

In either case it doesn't look that diffcult to accomplish.

BAJ

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