On 2003-10-29, gazing longingly at the horizon,
CM <cmize@goiter.com>
felt a deep, passionate desire to let the following be known:

> [..] 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?

Given the chroot method that gentoo uses for installation, you can
pretty much set up the base system from any environment that gives you
some basic access to the disk where you aim to place the os.

In theory, a red hat "rescue prompt" would do, consider it just like
the gentoo live cd and work from there following the regular install
docs. A knoppix boot cd should do as well. Theoretically.

A small installation of any other linux distribution will work for
sure, but then you'd have to clean up the partition(s) used by that
afterwards. Using grub as the boot loader will keep things flexible
enough if you for some reason need to switch back and forth between
the two until your gentoo installation is working perfectly.

Installing from a bootable cd like knoppix is probably your best bet,
all things considered, assuming that it can deal with your hardware.

hth.

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