Making a floppy boot disk in windows =/

[WyvStaX]

Hi everyone, im new, and I want gentoo nowww

Anyway, I want to install it on an old machine that has a clean hard drive and doesnt have boot from CD rom support.

I was wondering if there is any way to create a boot disk on a floppy (in windows, or dos) to boot the cd (i've got stage 1)

Please explain thoroughly because this is all a tad confusing atm

[dol-sen]

First try devjonfos bootdisk
that he made. It works on i586 and up. It does NOT have scsi or pcmcia, reiserfs support, but should do most standard old desktop boxes.

If you need reiserfs support, you can use his bootdisk or tomsrtboot to create a /boot partition with an ext3 filesystem (the recommended fs), copy the livecd kernel and initrd to the new partition, acquire a grub bootfloppy then boot the grub bootfloppy and enter the correct commands to boot the kernel from hd (it still requires the cd in the drive). Then complete the install normally, I left the cd kernel in the /boot partition with an entry for it in the grub menu for rescue/repair if needed.

There are other methods described in this thread using other distro's bootdisks.
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[li1_getoo]

try this also , then u install gentoo
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/s1-steps-install-cdrom.html#S2-STEPS-MAKE-DISKS