Hi there, I'm hoping to install Gentoo onto my laptop. It's a sony vaio PCG-R600HEP with a docking station that contains a firewire CDRW/DVDROM and a floppy drive. It's also got a network card etc.
I have tried various ways of getting the installation started but have failed every time. However I boot, whichever boot options I pass to the acpi kernel, it starts booting and then fails with the message shown at the bottom. As well as every option I could think of for booting from the Gentoo CD, I've made a CD of Knoppix, but this fails as well, unable to find the CD. In the past I've managed to install Redhat 9 (not on the computer anymore -- I did a complete restart with the windows recovery disc that came with it and then shrunk the windows partition down to 3GB with partition magic), but I did that by using the boot floppy that came with it and then installing by ftp from another computer on the local network. Since Gentoo is supposed to be a network installed system anyway, is this possible? I couldn't find any bootdisk images and the only references I've seen on the web talk about using slackware to get it started. Is it necessary to use a four disk system? I don't even own four floppy disks! Is there an easier way? Many thanks for any pointers, Al Messages: Keymap selection: 40 ---- Loading 40 keymap mount: Mounting /newroot/dev/cdroms/* on /newroot/mnt/cdrom failed: No such file or directory ---- CD not found umount: /newroot: Device or resource busy BusyBox v0.60.5 (2003.07.21-01:15+0000) Built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. sh: can't access tty; job control turned off # -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
