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On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 04:56:48PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
: > 
: Ah I think I understand, the linuxrc program does not detect a valid
: gentoo cd on /dev/hdc.
: Is this correct?

Bingo!!!!!

: So you only have one partition you can use with gentoo? 
: If we don't get the iso working on your machine, a solution could be
: using tomstbr (a single floppy distro)
: for installation. It should have all the tools required to setup your
: network, ftp the sys.tbz2 and install it.

Sadly yes.  I can either map the cdrom to ide1 and have it come up as
/dev/hdc or ide2 and have it come up as /dev/hde.  Of course the
installer doesn't probe /dev/hde, so I normally choose mapping the cdrom
to ide1.  8)

        --Jerry

name:  Jerry Alexandratos         ||  Open-Source software isn't a
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