Hi! Gentoo doesn't have any floppy images, and I don't really know how easy it would be to turn that livecd into floppies. The iso itself is almost 80mb. That means a lot of floppies. If any of those boxes already have a distro on them, and you have a spare partision on the drive, you could set up the install in a chroot, and then move it over to the main partision. That's how I did my first install. In some ways, that was nicer because it was a learning experience, (and I didn't have any livecd's then.) Other people have told me that you can use other distro floppies to start a gentoo install, but there are some tools that you definitly need, and I don't know of any distro floppies that have all of those tools. On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Steve Holmes wrote: > How easy would it to be to create floppy boot images to launch this live CD? > I would need to build floppies so I could boot from my older machines that > cannot boot directly from CD. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Deedra Waters" <dmwaters at gentoo.org> > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 11:26 AM > Subject: Re: speakup and gentoo kernels > > > > Alex, it's a bit of both. Basically what the livecd does is give you a > mini os so to speak so that you can install gentoo. It provides you with > the ability to ssh if you need to, provides youw ith links for a web > browser, an irc client, and a couple of other things that you may need. What > I also like about this is that I can boot the cd on a machine, set the root > password, and start ssh. From there, I can ssh into the box I just booted, > and do the install remotely if I choose. > > > > You can find gentoo instructions here: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml > > The docs do not tell you how to get the speakup kernel to boot, from what > I've been told, once it's conciddered stable, then they will include a > small section on how to get the cd to boot with speakup. I've done about 6 > or 8 installs with this lived, heh, so I can tell you how to get it ggoing > > > > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Alex Snow wrote: > > > > > so is this the actual install cd or is this just a live bootable cd? > > > On > > > Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:58:47AM -0600, Deedra Waters wrote: > > > > Hi guys! > > > > > > > > As I mentioned before, speakup is nowin the gentoo install cd's > (livecd's) Current it is in the x86 experimental livecd. > > > > > > > > Also last night speakup was patched into the 'gentoo-dev-sources' > kernel. If things go as planned, this kernel will eventually become the > standard gentoo-sources kernel. > > > > > > > > This is a 2.6.0 kernel patched with the latest speakup cvs patch. > >From what I can tell, it works very nicely. > > > > > > > > If any of you are using gentoo, or want to use it, please give me any > feedback that you may have on the kernel or livecd. > > > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Gentoo Linux: Gentoo infrastructure, dmwaters at gentoo.org, > > > > http://www.gentoo.org > > > > > > > > Freenode staff member: dmwaters at freenode.net , http://www.freenode.net > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Gentoo Linux: Gentoo infrastructure, dmwaters at gentoo.org, > > http://www.gentoo.org > > > > Freenode staff member: dmwaters at freenode.net , http://www.freenode.net > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > -- Gentoo Linux: Gentoo infrastructure, dmwaters at gentoo.org, http://www.gentoo.org Freenode staff member: dmwaters at freenode.net , http://www.freenode.net
