pre-install questions

[mparsons]

Hello,

My system is a p3-450, 256 megs, 15gb hd on promise pci controller (/dev/hde), 4 gb hd on /dev/hda, plus other crap not important.

I want to install gentoo to /dev/hda, but I use /dev/hde to boot. I have had problems with boot managers before (both lilo and grub), so I have always used loadlin in the past (either from floppy or from a dos partition). So my question is, can I install gentoo so that it will use loadlin? ie it will either allow me to copy the kernel to a floppy, or to another partition?

Also, since its middle of dec. now, is it worth waiting til next release?

Thanks in advance,

Mark

[niqdanger]

Yes you can boot of hde and use hda as your drive for gentoo if you want. This is the same setup I had on a BP6 MB (the ATA66 drive came up as hde, while the other IDE chain was hda.)

-Nick