On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 21:29 +0200, Simon Schäfer wrote: > Why? Its used for the minimal installation cd of gentoo. (I got it from > their .spec - file). This is exactly what i want a minimal linux system with > nothing then a bootup that detects all my hardware loads all modules and as a > plus it should have a xinit to start a x based application (yes i know adding > X will increase the minimal CD by aprox. 25MB).
This is not what you will get. If you are not a member of Release Engineering, you should *never* use gentoo-release-* for livecd/type as they are custom tailored to produce the output Release Engineering expects, including ignoring certain spec fields and overriding them. You *must* use generic-livecd if producing a CD o fyour own, especially one with X on it. > We (me and my roommate) are trying to build a small gentoo-based bootcd with > xinit. I hoped it could be easy to use catalyst, just some work on spec files > and then let catalyst do all the work instead of our collection of shell > scripts. I still hope it could be done this way couse sharing spec files is a > lot easier then sharing shell scripts and a not so simple howto It would be fairly easy if you weren't fighting catalyst. Use livecd/type; generic-livecd and see things become dramatically easier when stuff quits being done for you, assuming it'll be an official Gentoo release and built 100% to Release Engineering standards and practices. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee Gentoo Foundation
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