Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[Gontran <locuchon@azstarnet.com>]

* Achim Gottinger (AGottinger@t-online.de) wrote:
> > >
> > > Does your 486 cdrom allow boot off the cdrom?
> > 
> > Unfortunately, no.  But there is another machine around here with a floppy
> > that works, come to think of it.  I'll make the floppies there and give it
> > another try on the cyrix.
> > 
> I uploaded two disc images to ibiblio
> gentoo-x86-distro/gentoo-1.0_rc4/images.
> 
> bootgrub_jerry.img conatins a special linuxrc for jerry, but also it
> contains
> additional grub menues to start the the rescue disc. This image contains
> the same kernel that is 
> on the rc4_pre2 iso, so if the iso does not work, this disc whouldn't
> work too.
> 
> I can make you a bootdisk image with a newer kernel if you want.
> 
> rdisk.gz is the recue disk image.
> 
> achim~
> 

Thanks Achim.  Turns out I had the same (memory?) problem with the boot floppy
on the cyrix *shrug*, and my 486 is old as ... well it doesn't have a math
co-processor.  Frankly, from the specs on the website, gentoo doesn't look
like it's a 486 kind of party... That seems reasonable to me.  

I'm gonna have to go shopping.  Looking forward to helping out.

Rgds,
Gontran