My wife's father recently brought us another PC - a Sony VIAO. We decided that it would be my wife's computer because I'm always using our HP. We took it to the shop last Friday to get the hard drive and RAM upgraded and then got it back today. My wife wanted me to install Gentoo on it, but this is proving difficult for me. The problem is this: The computer is so old that even though the BIOS is set to boot from CD before attempting to boot from the hard drive, CD booting doesn't work. The only way to install Gentoo that I know of is by booting up the LiveCD. I need a 3.5" floppy disk alternative. Is there a way to make a 3.5" floppy disk that would allow me to boot the computer and then mount my Gentoo CD and continue from there? So far today I've tried the following:
Attempt: Creating a boot-up floppy from my FC1 installation Result: Floppy booted successfully to a point, but then repeated "hdb: interrupt lost" indefinitely Attempt: Downloaded and wrote to floppy the Fedora Core 1 bootfloppy.img from the Fedora site. Result: Same as above Attempt: Downloaded and wrote to CD image of pocket-linux (www.pocket-linux.org) Result: Booted up successfully, but had no /dev/cdrom0 to allow me to mount the Gentoo CD. I could not find the correct device to mount the CD-ROM drive. Attempt: Went to Knoppix site looking for floppy images Result: Site was in German, so I could not understand it. My wife and I are moving to another town in a few days, and I would really like to have Gentoo on her machine before we go. Please help! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
