bootstrapping install on iBook that won't boot from cdr
lincr <[email protected]>
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Hi, I've posted before, but maybe I can ask the right questions now... I've recently been through an i386 install and so am more familiar with Gentoo. I've played with bootstrapping my iBook from other linuxes using chroot, but I'm not sure how to get there. My internal cdrom won't boot from/read cdr's. I cannot boot from my firewire CDRW drive either. At least not by holding down C or Option at boot... The LIveCD images aren't customizable to boot from an hfs partition( like boot to openfirmware, then 'boot hd:,yaboot', then boot to kernel/ramdisk installer). The Debian Sarge installer does not include bunzip2, so I cannot use it as a temporary bootstrap to extract tarballs. Okay, I guess I could bunzip the tarballs on my x86 box, then use the Debian installer to extract the .tar files into my future Gentoo partition. Anybody know of a better way around this chicken-or-egg problem with bootstrapping the install? Guess I'll try the Debian/.tar way... Lincoln i have a rock garden. last week three of them died... http://www.pycs.net/users/0000337 -- [email protected] mailing list