Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo without floppy

2003-08-22 Thread Greg Donald
> 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? > Ar

Re: [gentoo-user] install gentoo without floppy

2003-08-22 Thread donnie berkholz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 22 August 2003 15:35, Jan Meier wrote: > 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 ju

RE: [gentoo-user] install gentoo without floppy

2003-08-22 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
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 imag