On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 02:35 +0100, Matthias Langer wrote: > 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' ...
As my 'stage4' is now more or less complete, i looked a bit after the 'docache' option. For docache to work one needs at least twice as much ram than data is stored on the live-cd. With 64MB there is no chance to do this ... So i have two choices: 1.) Do a minimalistic installation from a stage-3 tarball, boot into the new system, insert the cd with the stage-4 tarball, copy it to the harddisk - reboot with the live cd - clean up and extract ... 2.) Pack my 'stage4' (which is about 300MB) image on the live-cd itself. I guess this should be possible with catalyst ... Personally i would strongly prefer method 2.) as it seems less error prone and should be much faster; Last but not least i've done most of the necessairy configuration work allready inside my 'stage4'. Thanks, Matthias -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
