Hello,
Moving from rh9 to another distro and i'd like to try gentoo. The box
i've got doesn't have a bootable CD-drive, so i'm wondering if there's a
floppy option that will load the installer or a way to boot off say an
external drive?
Thanks.
Dave.

dave enlightened us with:
> The box i've got doesn't have a bootable CD-drive, so i'm wondering if
> there's a floppy option that will load the installer or a way to boot
> off say an external drive?

IIRC floppy images are on the LiveCD.

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dave wrote:

> Moving from rh9 to another distro and i'd like to try gentoo. The box
> i've got doesn't have a bootable CD-drive, so i'm wondering if there's
> a floppy option that will load the installer or a way to boot off say
> an external drive?

If you already have RH9 on it, you could also try to install Gentoo from
within it. I installed my two Gentoo boxes through RH7.2 and Knoppix,
respectively. Of course the RH "upgrade" was done onto new hard disks.
It might be a bit more tricky if you plan on keeping the same disks ...

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Hello,
Thanks, i'd like to scrap rh when gentoo is fully installed. Is there a
method i could boot off of say a floppy and get network access? I've got an
nfs server/tftp server and i could point the installer there.
Thanks.
Dave.

dave wrote:

> Hello,
> Thanks, i'd like to scrap rh when gentoo is fully installed.

You seem to have misunderstood what he said:
You can install Gentoo from _within_ RH, or any other running distro.
This will not have anything to do with the running distro after it's
installed - you can scrap everything except the Gentoo bits.

> Is there a
> method i could boot off of say a floppy and get network access?

Obviously.

> I've got an
> nfs server/tftp server and i could point the installer there.

If you have network access you can install direct from the Internet -
you'd only need the minimum ISO to install.


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