Install 2.6 Kernel from Non-Gentoo 2.4 Live CD

katsiki

The Knoppix Installation section instructs the user to boot into a 2.6 kernel. However, the section that follows, "Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution," mentions the author installed Gentoo from a Red Hat 7.3 host. Is it possible to install 2005.0 from a system based on a pre-2.6 kernel, or are these instructions outdated?

I'm trying to bootstrap a Gateway 2000 (486-DX2 80 MB RAM) into the 2.6 world (I saved three of these suckers from the dumpster). Despite using dozen cheatcodes, I haven't been able to boot into any of the 2.6 Live CDs (Knoppix, Debian, Gentoo). However, I can boot into the 2.4 Live CDs fine.

However, it seems the current Gentoo install instructions rely on using a pre-existing 2.6 boot to run some variant of,

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

Hi.

I think I recall reading, perhaps in one of BobP threads, that if you want to use NPTL with a 2.6 kernel, you need a 2.6 kernel to be able to install 2005.0 - I think that it has to be more recent than 2.6.5, but I'm not sure.
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katsiki · Posted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks, again, Jorge!