Yes I do have that partition but but the compaq setup only needs to be 12 mb. It's a learning process and BOY am I learning :o) Sam. Ben Maas wrote: >Shoot. I wish I could have caught you before you did this. If you followed >the Gentoo instructions, you probably created a /boot partition right? Well, >its not *required* we could have turned that partition into the management >partition. Sorry you had to start over :-( > >On Friday 30 January 2004 01:05 am, Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > >>When I started this Gentoo install I removed all the partitions from the >>laptop. >>It's a Compaq Armada 7770, it needs the setup partition to hold the date >>of the system. >>That would be the reason for the error I got telling me that a date >>was... can't remember now. >> >>So I'm running "emerge sync" now and will start the compile tomorrow. >> >>Night All, >> >>Sam >> >>_______________________________________________ >>TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >>http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org >>https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list