Installing from the CD with a boot floppy ?

British · n00b Joined: 22 Sep 2002 Posts: 5

Maybe I'm dumb and/or this message belongs to the "newbie" forum, but still, there's something that is annoying me...

For what I've read on this site and on the forums, everybody seem to install gentoo either directly from the CD, or by the network.

In order to boot from the CD, one needs to have a bios and a cd player that make the booting process possible.
And to install from the network, one needs to have the ISO mounted on another Linux (for what I've understood).

All this seem pretty sufficient to install gentoo on any computer...

BUT, there is a "BUT" !

I am trying to install gentoo on a PIII 500 w/ 256MB ram.
I can boot on mostly all Linux distros, QNX and such, but no way to boot on any gentoo CDs I burnt.
And because all the other computers on my network are Zindozz "powered", I can't install from the network

So I'd like to know if there's some way to have a floppy boot disk to install from the CD (as any other Linux distro), or if there's another way around... :?:

biroed · Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2002 12:59 pm Post subject:

Wich one did you burn? you can't boot with a stagex.tar.bz.
Some people try to boot with this one.
You can try gentoo .1.2.iso to boot the kernel and then download the new .tar.bz
There is also an alternative install manual

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

The floppy install question has been asked many times and answered very well here.

Alternative installs including those from other distros covered here. You may want to check out forum search, the FAQ and docs. before posting.

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