offlist: Re: [vox-tech] Gentoo installation by NFS?

[Jonathan Stickel]

Henry House wrote:
> På söndag, 11 juli 2004, skrev Bruce Wolk:
> [...]
> 
>>>Generally, the install process goes like this (for stage 3):
>>>1) boot to a shell (from cd, floppy, or network?)
>>>2) prepare disk partitions (e.g. fdisk); reboot if necessary for 
>>>partition tables
>>>3) mount partitions
>>>4) acquire (e.g. download) the appropriate stage 3 root snapshot
>>>5) untar the snapshot onto what will be your new root partition
>>>6) chroot to your new root partition
>>>7) continue installing via gentoo commands and tools (emerge stuff)
> 
> [...]
> 
>>Jonathan's method will work--I just did essentially the same thing on my 
>>server, an old 500MHz Pentium III with 128MB.  Apache, mysql, and php 
>>are just purring along.  Take a look at
>>
>>http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/altinstall.xml
> 
> 
> Thanks, Bruce and Jonathan! I will report how it goes after I finish. I ran
> into a new snag: the floppy drive does not work! I think either the drive or
> the cable are defective. But fortunately the machine has a working PXE
> bootrom that can load Linux via ethernet. 
> 

I took a spare floppy and cable from you the other day.  I haven't used 
either yet, so let me know if you would like them back!

Jonathan