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pouakai
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 Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 2:49 am Post subject: Advice sought on installing Gentoo to PCMCIA microdrive... |
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My Laptop is NTFS'd to the hilt, but I figure with a bit of trickery it should be possible to put a gentoo install on the 2G pcmcia microdrive ???
I guess the tricky bit will be getting grub to look at a pcmcia or alternativley putting the kernel somewhere else (may have to be a CD)
Anyone been here before or have some useful comments ???
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Carlos
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| Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2003 3:12 am Post subject: Re: Advice sought on installing Gentoo to PCMCIA microdrive. |
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| pouakai wrote: | | I guess the tricky bit will be getting grub to look at a pcmcia or alternativley putting the kernel somewhere else (may have to be a CD) |
You're right; I don't think grub by itself would be able to read the microdrive (grub can do amazing things like netboot, but I don't think there would have been enough people wanting to boot from a microdrive for it to have been implemented - I might be wrong, though.) Assuming that the PCMICA microdrive is supported by the kernel, all you should really have to do is to make a boot CD with the kernel, although the most convenient, I think, would be to resize your NTFS partition just a little, and put in a boot partition for grub that would load a kernel, telling it to use the microdrive as root (but then... is that even possible?).
Looks like I'm in over my head here.  Do tell us how it goes, though.
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| Check to see if your BIOS will let you boot from a PCMCIA device. My only thought on that... |
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scoobydu
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Is this possible?
My microdrive would be useful running gentoo on my work laptop 
Without touching any of the Win2k drives ...
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