gentoo will install on any hardware if another distro helps

HellNo · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 5

Hi all,
I hope this is the right place to post my questions and frustrations.

Don't get me wrong, I think gentoo is promissing and I'd like to get it on my box...

I have a digital p66 / 32 Mb / 2Gb / aha-2940s76 / Plexwriter (scsi)

Isn't that AIC7xxx one of the most basic drivers. And a Plextor is a ref in cdroms? So why do I get:
isolinux: Failed to locate CD-ROM device; boot failed

I am thinking of installing rh7.3 on a second drive (hdb) to leave the whole of hda free for gentoo. If I do that and succeed, then what do I need to do to get gentoo up and running.

I have a cdrom containing ISOLINUX and STAGE_1.TBZ

Where do I go from here? Can you point me to some documentation?

Thanks for the help.
HN

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

Here you will find information about how to install from another distribution.

HellNo · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 5

Hi bsolar,
I had found that doc... printed and read

What I'm after is:
what happens between booting of the cd and getting the prompt.

When I boot from a seperate distro what do I do?

extract the files from gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc2.iso ?

there is nothing on that CS that looks like an installation procedure to me :\

Toughts?

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

I think you have to make the partitions, mount them, extract the tarball ecc... following the normal installation procedure from point 6.

HellNo · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 5

okidoki... sounds good enough to me.

All I need now is to install rh

Will keep you posted.

Thx for swift help