Hi, On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 15:57:28 +1000 Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I installed Gentoo on a Pentium II 400 Vaio "Picturebook", the Sony > > with a 6" widescreen (1024 x 480??) but never had one of these CD-Roms > > available, only the floppy drive. In fact I cheated & resorted to > > removing the hard-drive & installing Gentoo on it using a desktop PC > > before returning the drive to the laptop. I think it might be possible > > to avoid this by installing from stage 3 - that mostly just needs to be > > unpacked onto a Linux-formatted partition, doesn't it? There are surely > > Linux distros that'll boot on this device so a pre-compiled kernel > > could be copied across from another machine and then only grub needs to > > be run, I think. > > [...] > Hey Stroller ... You got the model in 1 ...! I think you're correct. I'm > going to try and > use partition magic under Windows 2000 which is the OS it came with to create > my partitions and install > a stage 3. I'll let you know how I go. Hopefully having an EXT2 > partition will help Knoppix start properly. Thanks, Richard I'm running Gentoo on my picturebook happily since about 2 or 3 years now. Just ask if there are more problems. I can give you a kernel patch for the neomagic frame buffer driver to have it support the 480px display height... BTW, @Stroller: it's a 10" widescreen, 6" would be a little too small... I did use a one-floppy distro that time to do the initial fdisk and mke2fs, copying over and unpacking the stage-File. I just forget which floppy distro I used, but it supported my PCMCIA-CDROM (not sony, so I hadn't even the choice to try booting from it) and my network adapter. -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
