> can you just boot from any bootable flopy (like toms root boot) and then
> mount the cdrom drive instead of trying to chain-boot the cdrom drive?
Yes, I can boot from tomsrtbt floppy.
> Then at least you can un-pack the contents onto your harddrive, install
> grub and get going that way.
I did the following steps:
1) booted from toms
2) prepared partitions
/dev/hda3 ext2 for /boot
/dev/hda4 ext3 for root
/dev/hda5 for swap
3) mkdir /mnt/gentoo
4) mount /dev/hda4 /mnt/gentoo
5) mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
6) mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo/boot
7) swapon /dev/hda5
8) As I have win98 installed on /dev/hda1, I put there stage3, portage
and distfiles there.
9) mounted /dev/hda1 and copied stage3 and portage files into /mnt/gentoo
10) cd /mnt/gentoo
11) tar -xvjpf /temp/stage3file.bz2
and here I had a error:
tar: illegal option -j
I have question:
a) Does it mean tomsrtbt doesn't support '-j' option?
b) Are the above steps I did the right way to install gentoo with boot
from floppy?
askar
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