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Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:27:45 -0500
From: Don Seiler <rizzo@gentoo.org>
To: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies
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Thanks I'll tinker around with this, and maybe add it to portage (I
don't see it there now).

What are peoples thoughts on an Official Gentoo Boot Floppy?

Don.

On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:55:52PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> Well, why not use BYLD?  You can check it out at
> http://byld.sourceforge.net and see what you think.  It hasn't been
> updated in a long time, but I still find it useful.
> 
> On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 15:14, Don Seiler wrote:
> > I wish tom's would update to work with gentoo.  I've never ventured into
> > bootdisk creation but I know it's been asked many times over:  Can we
> > have a gentoo boot-disk?  Single-disk thing like tomsrtbt, but one that
> > works with gentoo for a CD-less install is what I have in mind. 
> > 
> > I currently have 4-5 p200 boxes that are sitting useless because
> > tomsrtbt is the only bootdisk that recognizes their NIC, but won't
> > chroot because of the known problems.  Slack and ZootLinux don't see the
> > nic.
> > 
> > Don.
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