Finally I installed gentoo on my laptop IBM ThinkPad X240, which has not internal CD-ROM drive and has external FD drive (not usb one). I used 2 floppy distros hal91 and toms. Why I used 2 distros: 1) hal91 supports bzunzip2 for bunzipping stage and portage files 2) hal91 supports '-p' option which I used for 'tar -xvpf stage3...' 3) toms distro used for creating ext3 fs for root by 'mke2fs -j'. Though hal91 also has mke2fs command '-j' option didn't work for me. 4) at /dev/hda1 I had win98 partition, so I put there stage3, portage and distiles of gentoo 2005.0 5) after chroot I couldn't use env-update. I could use this command after 'source /etc/profile' 6) the rest I followed as in installation hanbook.
That's all. Thanks to everybody for helping me. askar On 5/15/05, askar ... <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have thinkpad laptop 240X. > I have Windows98 and Suse installed on it. > I have a external floppy drive (not usb) and external usb CD-ROM drive. > I installed Suse first booting from floppy and when system booted I > was able continue installing Suse with CD-ROM. > I want to install gentoo above suse. > But I think Suse install and Gentoo install way are different, if i > will begin installing from floppy. > Could anybody advice me where I can find the information about this > way of installing gentoo (i.e. boot from floppy and the continue with > the Live CD)? > > thanks. > askar > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
