well there was a miracle today i got 3 free hours to manage to install the system up to the bootloader but what i really need is X since this is the family pc :-P the vmware idea is nice.. but i don't know about it can i load a hole drive as my virtual harddrive? On 2/7/06, Steven S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, Ghaith Hachem wrote: > > > hello > > i was trying to reinstall gentoo after i changed harddrives but i have > > a little time problem i cant' keep my system unusable for more then an > > hour i have windows XP and i have write support to my ext3 partitions > > is there a way i can use cygwin to install the sytem? it's probably > > impossible but i just want to make sure. > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > Ghaith > > > > > > You can't complete the install through cygwin. You can complete the > install through VMware though. Get the 30 day trial, create a new virtual > machine, give it access to the raw disk partition (or whatever it says > when you're creating it). I have used that method to install Debian over > dial up in the past, you just need to compile the kernel and setup things > like fstab to point to how it should be, now how it is off of vmware. > > I would give it access to the entire disk rather than just the linux > partition, as you can then install grub. > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
-- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
