On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 20:47:55 -0800, CM wrote:

> I have a Dell PowerEdge 1300 that has uses an aic7xxx scsi controller and
> the live cd is choking on it. There are several posts on the Gentoo forums
> from people having similar problems. One of the followups talks about
> starting a redhat install and letting it detect all the hardware and then
> downloading the stage1 tarball and continuing on with the regular gentoo
> install. Does this sound legit and if so could someone explain how it
> works?


Tried using Knoppix yet to see if it will boot and then do the install
from there.
http://www.knoppix.org/

My current system has a newer promise IDE controller that both the live cd
and Knoppix would not recognize. I ended up doing a small Red Hat install
then install Gentoo from there. I shared the used /boot partition and Grub
was already install with the Red hat install. After I was done turned
the Red Hat install into my swap partition.