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Einar Karttunen wrote:

>Hello
>
>When will rc6 be ready? Is there anyway of installing gentoo
>without a cd? I can boot the computer to linux so it should
>be possible to create a dir for gentoo chroot to it and
>install emerge. Has anybody done this? What about installing
>from a floppy?
>
The short answer is yes, there are many ways to get a build image going. 
 You can used the bootable CD from rc5, you can use boot floppies, you 
can wait until drobbins gets this new zdisk stuff going.  The 
requirements for the system to bootsrap from is that it has kernel 2.4, 
networking support, and optionally, reiserfs support and tools.

Chad (chadh)