[Nottingham] Gentoo on Very Old PC!?

Derek Huskisson derek at huskisson.free-online.co.uk
Sun Sep 10 14:10:46 BST 2006


On Saturday 09 September 2006 23:21, Martin wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I'm about to experiment with Gentoo...
>
> The first problem is that the target machine cannot boot off the HDDs in
> there (yes, it's my old LAN-party server, with the cd custom isolinux
> bootup).
>
> Does the Gentoo installer from the LiveCD offer to make a boot disk?
> (And also have the image fit into the 1.44MB of a floppy disk?)
>

	Pretty sure it doesn't, but have a look here:--


	http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-63862-highlight-live+floppy.html

 The thread is a bit old, but it's been updated recently, there are two pages 
BTW.

		Derek



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