Re: [gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Philipp Riegger
On 07.05.2007, at 23:13, Richard Watson wrote: Apart from the obvious comment to buy a CD drive ... Is there anyone out there that has Gentoo 2.6 kernel that will boot of a floppy and can tell me how to do it? The only other command I would need to perform would be chroot. I cannot tell

[gentoo-user] Booting Gentoo from a floppy and then chroot to finish install on old PC

2007-05-07 Thread Richard Watson
Hi - I've got an old PC at home I want to use as a samba server. It doesn't have a CD drive and I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to create bootable gentoo floppy. I've been using Toms linux to wget and re-install the stage and portage files but the kernel is to old and fails on chroot.