hell, I did mine all from another machine here.. Basically, I downloaded the initial tar, untared to a directory.. Chrooted to it, did everything in the steps up to grub.. Used a bootdisk I use to get on unbootable pcs.. fdisked and mounted the drives and NFS the drive I used to create the image.. did a big cp -a. (took awhile)... The finished from grub on.. Booted right up...
Just make sure the make.conf flags are set for the machine you intend to put the copy on.. or, if you have a CD rom on it, you could just boot it up with a rescue type disk.. I think it has the tar image on there for ya.. Never did it that way myself. The old pc I had didn't have a cdrom on it. Floppy and a 2gig drive.. :) BTW, if you put SSH on your boot disk, you could just so a scp -a over to your machine as well.. (dunno if your compiled kernel will have nfs support or not.) did this well over a year ago, other them being slow on compiles, openmosix helps it a lot, it works pretty good. -----Original Message----- From: Jan Meier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2003 3:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] install gentoo without floppy Hello, i got a problem with my server because it is an old computer and the mainboard doesn't support booting fromo cd. But i want to install gentoo on this computer. On the gentoo-ftp i found just cd-isos but no boot floppies. How can i install gentoo without using the live cd? Are there any unofficial boot floppies? Thanx, Jan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
