[gentoo-dev] gentoo floppy bootimages?

[gentoo-dev] gentoo floppy bootimages?

[Joerg.Brakebusch]

Hi,

I want install gentoo on a system without CD-Rom. It's only a floppydrive
and a internet-connection available.


How to install gentoo on this system?

thanks

Jörg




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Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo floppy bootimages?

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 Joerg.Brakebusch@epost.de wrote:

> I want install gentoo on a system without CD-Rom. It's only a floppydrive
> and a internet-connection available.
> 
> How to install gentoo on this system?

It is not worth the hassle. We don't have floppy install images. Verwilst
has them planned, but it will be a bit longer.

If you _really_, _really_ want to install Gentoo anyway, you'll have to
use your favourite linux minidistro that has network _AND_ reiserfs or xfs
or ext3 support, both in the kernel and in usermode (mkfs.xfs, etc).

I don't know of any few/single floppy  distros that do, but I'd expect
there to be at least one.

The alternative is to get FreeDOS, install it on your HD, then copy out
the initrd and kernel images from the CD, put those on your HD as well,
and use loadlin 1.6b or c (1.6 doesn't work, 1.6a does work sometimes,
1.6b is flaky, and 1.6c is even more flaky. YMMV) to boot from your HD.

Not exactly a picnic.


Karl T

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo floppy bootimages?

[Masatomo Nakano]

Hello,

> I want install gentoo on a system without CD-Rom. It's only a floppydrive
> and a internet-connection available.

I used the floppy at 'http://www.toms.net/rb/'.
I could install by almost same method as 
'Gentoo Linux Installation Instructions'.

There were the following problems.

1.tar is not GNU tar.
  It dosen't have options '-p','-j'.
  cat stage1-ix86-1.2.tbz2 | bzip2 -d | tar xf - 

  After chroot, I did 'tar xjpf stage1' again.

2.mount proc
  NG:mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
  OK:mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc

--
Masatomo Nakano

Re: [gentoo-dev] gentoo floppy bootimages?

[Mark Gilbert]

I'll be honest, I haven't read much of the thread.
I just unpack the tarball (stage1 for me (I remember when that was the
only stage d=)) to some random host and make a floppy to nfsroot and
from there it is pretty much taken care of.  I think there's a
bootfloppy howto somewhere but it is a simple enough process if you are
able to build a kernel (as all gentooers should be) that you wont need
it.

Tired but glad to help out if you need it
-MG

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 23:07, Masatomo Nakano wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > I want install gentoo on a system without CD-Rom. It's only a floppydrive
> > and a internet-connection available.
> 
> I used the floppy at 'http://www.toms.net/rb/'.
> I could install by almost same method as 
> 'Gentoo Linux Installation Instructions'.
> 
> There were the following problems.
> 
> 1.tar is not GNU tar.
>   It dosen't have options '-p','-j'.
>   cat stage1-ix86-1.2.tbz2 | bzip2 -d | tar xf - 
> 
>   After chroot, I did 'tar xjpf stage1' again.
> 
> 2.mount proc
>   NG:mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
>   OK:mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
> 
> --
> Masatomo Nakano
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