reader CD non bootable

Gasy · Guest

Hi,

My CD-reader is not bootable (too old). How can i do please?

Thanks

delta407 · Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2002 12:05 am Post subject:

Without a bootable CD, the install can become a bit more tricky. (Okay, a lot harder.) But, really, to install Gentoo, all you need is the base system image (stage_-i_86.tar.bz2), disk partitioning tools (fdisk, mke2fs, mkreiserfs, etc.), and a way to extract it (tar + bunzip2). So, if you can get a Linux boot floppy, mount the CD, and run the appropriate utilities, you should be good... though, you'll need your wits about you, since the install guide won't work verbatim.

Beavis · n00b Joined: 22 May 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Dirty Jersey

I've always had great luck with tomsrtbt boot disk. Has just about everything you need on one disk

Beavis

Guest · Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2002 9:37 am Post subject:

This bootdisk worked for me. I just sort of followed the installation guide from the point on where you extract the tarball from the CD and after that chroot to the extracted files. It seemed to work this morning when I left it to do the emerge system