[ale] How was the NW meeting last night?

[Ray Knight]

On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 18:03, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> One can save oneself some strife when trying to install Gentoo on
> sub-swift hardware by doing a Stage 2 or Stage 3 install instead of the
> compile-every-last-stitch Stage 1 install.
> 
> Now, where I'm having trouble is that none of my available boxes will
> boot to a CD and, although I have an Initio-based SCSI card whose BIOS
> will let me boot to a CD, none of the three loose SCSI CD drives I have
> - two of which are burners - will boot to a CD-R or CD-RW.  This means
> that I have to go through this very tedious procedure of installing some
> distro or another from a prefab CD (Caldera eServer 2.3 in this case)
> and using that to get the Gentoo CD contents onto a disk drive where I
> can actually do something with them.
> 

There may be an easier solution to your problem.  Many older CDROM
drives can't boot from disks burned a high speed.  Try burning the CD at
4X or 2X and I'm willing to bet it will then boot just fine.  This is
especially true of older Toshiba, Sony and Panasonic/Matushita SCSI
drives.

Ray


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