Install from floppy, still alive?

hans_da · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 64

Well, once upon a time I heard that there is a project creating a booting floppy for gentoo installation. Is this project still alive? Where can I find more information about such project?

John R. Graham · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 10:29 am Post subject:

Do you have a CD but your computer won't boot from it? If so, The Gentoo Linux alternative installation method HOWTO shows how to make a bootloader floppy that will boot the install CD.

Not have a CD at all? This old post shows a method to use another distribution's boot floppy set to install Gentoo.

But, native Gentoo install floppies do not exist as far as I know.

- John

JRG: Edited for typos. Aarrgghh.

hans_da · n00b Joined: 09 Mar 2007 Posts: 64

Well, in fact I have already tried to install Gentoo from the boot disc of another distribution but it is quite difficult. Since the new profile nowadays uses GCC4 and a new glibc or so, one cannot chroot from those old boot disc, such as Debian. I have to revert to an old profile and update afterwards the gcc, and rebuild the system again. Is there any floppy distro that can chroot to stage 3 package of 2007.0 profile?

nixnut · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Unsupported Software.
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