On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:19 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Matthias Langer wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > >> Matthias Langer wrote: > >>> Is it possible to somehow build the complete p3 system with custom use > >>> and cflags with my athlon-xp at home to get some kind of > >>> 'stage4-tarball' that i just have to unpack to the hardisk of the > >>> p3-system (instead of the stage3 tarball) ? > >> Yes, but you don't need catalyst to do it. You can easily extract a stage3 > >> tarball into a directory, chroot into it, do whatever you want, exit the > >> chroot, > >> and then tar up the directory. The result is essentially a "stage4". > >> > > Thanks for your tip; However, two small questions remain: > > 1.) What options should i pass to tar when packing the chrooted > > environment ? > > tar -C /path/to/chroot/dir -cjpf /path/to/stage4.tar.bz2 . > > > 2.) Is there a way to eject the live-cd after booting, so that i can > > insert a cd with my custom "stage 4" ? > > Add 'docache' (or something like that) to the kernel command line. It's > documented somewhere :) Although, if both machines are on the same network, > it'd > probably be easier to just transfer the tarball via NFS, scp, http, etc. once > the CD is booted.
Well, unfortunatly the machines aren't on the same network, but hopefully it will work with 'docache' ... Thanks for your tipps, and sorry for posting a bit off topic. Matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
