I think you misunderstood me. The boot manager that I downloaded is used to create a special boot floppy to allow you to boot, well, seems like just about any type of disk. So, it's run from the diskette, like you would use a DOS boot disk. Yes, you can also install the smart boot loader on your hard drive, but I don't think that's a nice approach when you're blind. The Gentoo handbook will tell you how to install the GRUB boot loader at the end of the installation. So no extra partition is created (for me).
I don't know how much you know about Gentoo Linux, but be advised that there's alot of hacking. Yeah, you're guided by the handbook found on their site, but it's not like the Red Hat or Debian more or less automatic installation programs.
Regards, /David R. At 10:53 2004-04-16 -0500, you wrote:
Hi, This is an interesting approach. So then did you end up with an extra partition at the end of the installation? Or did you just make the new partition the default one for Gentoo to boot from? What did you do about this?
** Travis Roth www.TravisRoth.com travis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
-----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Mike Gorse Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 10:02 AM To: Linux for blind general discussion Subject: Re: Gentoo
For what it's worth, I got it installed by creating a new partition on my drive for it, unpacking the stage 1 tarball into it, and then chrooting into it and following the instructions from the documentation as if I was booting from a cd. Obviously that requires having free space on the drive, but it allowed me to install with speech and without having my system go down while I was building it.
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