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jmaloy · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

I have MDK9.1 on my laptop. I have a stage 2 tar ball in /home/jmaloy Where do I move it to and how? Go I need to make a dir and if I do How? Then tell me where I need to start on the Instructions. Im a noob and this will be my first "from scratch"or "almost scratch" install. After I install how do I get rid of Mandrake? Not that I dont like Mandrake, I just just dont need 2 Linux OSs on here.
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jmaloy · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

My Cd-rom dont work.
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cyrillic · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:53 am Post subject:

Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distro is pretty much the same as installing from a Gentoo CD. Just boot Mandrake, open a terminal, su to root, and start following the instructions from step 6.

ps. The stage tarball you downloaded will be used in step 8.2

madchaz · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 4:24 am Post subject:

you will also need to make sure you have space on your HD to create new partitions to install to. you can't just install "over" your mandrake.

not without deleting it first anyway. and if you do that while you are using it to install ... well, chances are it'll go to hell, lol
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jmaloy · n00b Joined: 03 Aug 2003 Posts: 15

Ok, Then
I have a boot floppy to install MDK 9.1 over a network. How can I use it to install Gentoo over the Internet. Please be aware that my CD-ROM DOES NOT WORK. If I cant install Gentoo directly over the internet which distro will allow me to?
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logon · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 5:38 am Post subject:

you just need any kind of linux boot medium which allows you at least to use tar, a text editor and some basic glic stuff. you will need cp and mount and chroot. At some step in the installation you unpack the tarball and the chroot into your "new" gentoo installation. after that you shoul be fine. remember, if u dont have a cdrom working, you must find some way to get the tarball. you can of course download the tarball to your harddrive after you formatted it and mounted the partitions but then remember to get a boot medium which gives u internet access. Hope this made some things a little clearer.