Re: Installing to a computer with a non-bootable CD-ROM drive

On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 09:57, Jani-Matti Hätinen wrote:
>   The problem is that the motherboard is so old that it doesn't support 
> booting from the CD-ROM drive. What I'd like to know is whether it's possible 
> to make a boot floppy which could be used to boot the Gentoo Linux 
> Installation CD. And obviously, if it is possible, how to do it.

You might want to have a look at this:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=8690

It's an unofficial "Installation from a boot floppy HOWTO", but it
rocks! :-)


Throstur