Re: [gentoo-user] howto install gentoo without a cd-rom

[Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>]

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 13:47 +0600, simply change wrote:
> hi!
> 
> dear friends,
> 
> i have an old pentium2 laptop without a cdrom. it has a 1 LAN port(I
> HAVE A ADSL LINE) + floppy driver.  now i need to install gentoo to my
> lap. so can any body to help me to do this? 


There is a howto on  the gentoo documentation, and perhaps in the wiki
too, - search for "alternative install"

basically you need a floppy that will allow you to:

1. boot with networking going
2. create and mount your filesystems
3. download a stage file
4. unzip it (specifically bzip2, although if the floppy only has gzip ot
zip you an repack your stage file)
5. chroot into the new file system.

tomsrtbt seems to fall down on the chrooting.

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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>

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