Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO - OT [SOLVED]

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
OK I understand. I installed it on a floppy disk and it works great. Thanks for all your help! On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 02:06 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't > > seem to get it to work. I downloaded the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO - OT

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:54:43 -0600 Michael Sullivan wrote: > I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't > seem to get it to work. I downloaded the main file, the support file, > and the docs archive onto my wife's PC and installed it as per the > instructions in the do

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO - OT

2005-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't seem to get it to work. I downloaded the main file, the support file, and the docs archive onto my wife's PC and installed it as per the instructions in the docs. I went out to the DOS prompt and typed:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO - OT

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I went to the site. It looks ideal for what I'm attempting. I can't seem to get it to work. I downloaded the main file, the support file, and the docs archive onto my wife's PC and installed it as per the instructions in the docs. I went out to the DOS prompt and typed: sbmist -t us -d 128 an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO

2005-02-16 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:45:54 +0100 Holly Bostick wrote: > Michael Sullivan wrote: > > 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? > > Smart Boot Manager: http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html new url, tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO

2005-02-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Michael Sullivan wrote: 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 instal

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on Sony VIAO

2005-02-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
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 thi