well i'm trying to maybe use a bunch of different partitions and mount
everything to a separate one say mount /usr/portage to something like
/dev/hda5 or whatever and then when i'm done I should hopefully have a
fully working / at one of the partitions, and then I can use dd to copy it
to a flash.



On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Vano D wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > I have a script I put together that will 'emerge' packages into an
> > alternate root using portage.  My goal was a machine 'image' that I
> > could stick in an embedded device, and if upgrades were needed I would
> > upgrade the 'image' not individual packages.
> > At the smallest so far, i put busybox+glibc+kernel in 50 megs(i know
> > that's huge i compiled in locales and other junk), but right now I'm
> > working on building a uclibc toolchain.  And I should have that
> > finished in about a week.
>
> I would be very interested in seeing how you went about doing this. As I
> understand you use a host gentoo installation to "emerge" packages into
> a clean root. What I wonder is what that root contains? Do you start
> with a skeleton? If so what? and finally do you use the bin package
> feature portage provides to carry this out?
>
> My eventual goal as I stated before is to have as lean/clean server
> enviornment as possible and as a secondary consequence try to make
> bootable CDs with custom selectable tools/apps.
>
> Regarding the -doc flag... I wonder how many packages support it.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Vano.
>
>
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