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From: George Shapovalov <georges@its.caltech.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Loadlin install ?
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:45:14 -0700
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Please take a look at #311
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D311
The last comment seems to be related to such situation.
I don't think you will be able to use loadlin to boot CD image directly,=20
however you still can get a kernel and "resque" image/disk and use loadli=
n on=20
this pair.

George


On Wednesday 15 May 2002 06:11, Stephane Dudzinski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been asking this via IRC but nobody could reply to me. I would lov=
e
> to install gentoo on a machine without floppy or bootable CD-ROM drive.
> It's got DOS, so i can currently boot in it and load loadlin, worked
> like a charm with Debian 2.2
>
> Now, i would like to do the same with gentoo. I thought i would use
> isolinux's images on the CD but it fails any single time.
>
> Anyone tried before and furthermore, succedeed ?
>
> Thanks,
> Steph