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by BoricAcid
Thu May 06, 2004 2:36 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Question about native installation
Replies: 11
Views: 4524

I'm working a native install to use the whole 10gb of the hard drive, but I didnt succeed completely yet. I'd say it's better if you keep the dvd drive at least for installation. After you can remove it and install that second hard drive in.

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by BoricAcid
Wed May 05, 2004 8:39 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing a native GentooX on a formatted drive
Replies: 19
Views: 9486

Hmm. the bios wont let me boot from the hard drive, even if i do have a linuxboot.cfg file in the root of /dev/hda2 and that /dev/hda2 is bootable. help?
by BoricAcid
Wed May 05, 2004 8:22 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing a native GentooX on a formatted drive
Replies: 19
Views: 9486

Alright, I am progressing in the install, but I am not used to patching the initrd.gz file. I'm posting this partly to make sure all I do is correct and partly because others could follow these steps with more ease later on. I've looked at the f-drive.b0x as you recommend. i gunzipped initrd.gz, mou...
by BoricAcid
Tue May 04, 2004 2:21 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing a native GentooX on a formatted drive
Replies: 19
Views: 9486

Thanks, I'll look into it tonight and post here to tell how it went. -edit- the latest gentoox cromwell would be the one with sparkle integration, right? If so, why would one need to download the whole Sparkle package to get just the bios? It would be neat to have a section to download just the gent...
by BoricAcid
Mon May 03, 2004 10:13 pm
Forum: Q & A
Topic: Installing a native GentooX on a formatted drive
Replies: 19
Views: 9486

Installing a native GentooX on a formatted drive

Hi, I've installed Gentoo Linux previously on my xbox and it worked alright, but I've decided to try to install GentooX on it now, as the magic tool sounds great and some other features interest me. My partitions looks like this: /dev/hda1 256mb swap /dev/hda2 ~10gb reiserfs What's the best way for ...