[gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[DerKlempner]

I have an older machine that I wish to install Gentoo Linux on, but its BIOS
does not support booting from the CD-ROM drive.  How can I make a boot
floppy for the install?  Currently, there is no operating system on the hard
drive in the system, so I cannot access the CD from that computer.

Thanks for your help!

Geoff Freimark
Chicago, IL

Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[Scott Moynes]

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* DerKlempner (derklempner@hotmail.com) wrote:
> I have an older machine that I wish to install Gentoo Linux on, but
> its BIOS does not support booting from the CD-ROM drive.  How can I
> make a boot floppy for the install?  Currently, there is no
> operating system on the hard drive in the system, so I cannot access
> the CD from that computer.

Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
-- 
Scott Moynes

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[fthieme]

> Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
> network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
> http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.

last time I tried it won't. Its because of busybox...

Bye...Frank

Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[Scott Moynes]

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* fthieme@gmx.net (fthieme@gmx.net) wrote:
> > Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
> > network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
> > http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
> 
> last time I tried it won't. Its because of busybox...

Explain?
-- 
Scott Moynes

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[fthieme]

> * fthieme@gmx.net (fthieme@gmx.net) wrote:
> > > Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
> > > network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
> > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
> > 
> > last time I tried it won't. Its because of busybox...
> 
> Explain?

I don't remember the error. just the line 'chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash'
didn't work. Just try it, maybe it will work now. It's half a year since I tried
it.

Bye...Frank

Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[mbutcher]

I don't see bash on the list of packages.... You probably have to change that 
line to:

chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/ash

and use the ash shell instead of the bash shell.

Matt

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 01:19 am, fthieme@gmx.net wrote:
> > * fthieme@gmx.net (fthieme@gmx.net) wrote:
> > > > Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for
> > > > your network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet
> > > > Tom's rtbt http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
> > >
> > > last time I tried it won't. Its because of busybox...
> >
> > Explain?
>
> I don't remember the error. just the line 'chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash'
> didn't work. Just try it, maybe it will work now. It's half a year since I
> tried it.
>
> Bye...Frank
>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[Frank Thieme]

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On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 11:40:03 -0600
mbutcher <mbutcher@aleph-null.tv> wrote:

> I don't see bash on the list of packages.... You probably have to change
> that line to:
> 
> chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/ash
> 
> and use the ash shell instead of the bash shell.

maybe, this time I tried it it didn't work because of the missing driver
of the network card...

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RE: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?

[Einar Örn Eiðsson]

I used Tom's rtbt to install Gentoo with the 1.1a CD, it worked fine, had to change mount parameters to bind /proc though.

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From: fthieme@gmx.net [mailto:fthieme@gmx.net]
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To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Boot Floppy for CD?


> * fthieme@gmx.net (fthieme@gmx.net) wrote:
> > > Just about any boot floppy will do, so long as it has drivers for your
> > > network card, and chroot. I haven't tried it yet, but I bet Tom's rtbt
> > > http://www.toms.net/rb/ will work.
> > 
> > last time I tried it won't. Its because of busybox...
> 
> Explain?

I don't remember the error. just the line 'chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash'
didn't work. Just try it, maybe it will work now. It's half a year since I tried
it.

Bye...Frank

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