Gentoo

[David Renström]

Hi Travis,

Ok, I'm sorry I didn't check which of us you were replying to.

If you wanna use the SBM, then just try different arrow-enter patterns like 
I did. Actually it didn't take very long.

Regards,
/David R.
At 11:28 2004-04-16 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi David,
>
>No, I understand you fine, thanks.
>I was replying to the other approach of creating an extra partition and
>chrooting into it.
>
>The boot loader idea is also good and I'd use that if I figure out what
>the command sequence is, I don't have a way to monitor the boot loader
>as it is graphical.
>
>And yes I know Gentoo is a lot more hacking> <smile>
>I am sure at some point it'll make me long to return to Debian.
>
>
>**  Travis Roth
>www.TravisRoth.com
>travis at travisroth.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>On Behalf Of David Renström
>Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 11:00 AM
>To: Linux for blind general discussion
>Subject: RE: Gentoo
>
>
>Hi again,
>
>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 at travisroth.com
> >
> >
> >-----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.
> >
> >-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.home.dhs.org -- A
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> >
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