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* Re: [gentoo-dev] RE:Boot floppies
  @ 2003-07-25 22:43 99% ` Mike Frysinger
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From: Mike Frysinger @ 2003-07-25 22:43 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Friday 25 July 2003 14:52, C. Brewer wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, are you aiming for a sort of gentooish tom's, or a
> generic boot the existing w/o a loader (rh style) or enough of a workable
> root system to mount a cd and install (ala debian?) I'm personally more
> interested in the latter, as I currently use debian's first two boot
> floppies to help people get linux on older machines that don't boot from
> the cd.

the idea is to do make a boot floppy that allows you to install Gentoo :)

so, we'd be aiming for bootloader + kernel (2.6.x does not support the 
oldschool 1 disk w/out bootloader style) + workable env to setup your fs, d/l 
a tarball, and chroot from there ...
uClibc has proven to provide small binaries so we can fit a lot on 1 disk :)
probably be looking at the 2 disk series in order to get it all ... 1 disk 
w/kern + modules and another disk w/all the utilities you need to setup your 
system for the chroot.

like i said, i need help with the bootloader stage to keep this thing going
- -mike
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