>i think the easiest way is to put the hard drive in and mount it. >then install to it from an existing gentoo system. > >ROOT=/mnt/embedded-install emerge SOMEPACKAGE
IMO, it should be this simple, but in my experience it isn't. Having said that, I tried it almost a year ago so things may have improved since then. There are circular dependencies for the low-level system packages which have to be fixed using the "bootstrap" and "build" use flags. I can't remember the specifics. Personally I'd like to be able to have an empty directory, create the configuration (make.conf, make.profile, /etc/portage etc) and do a "ROOT=xxxx emerge system". It would be even slicker if the configuration could specify an arm target and it automagically cross-compiled everything. Please post the results of your experiments, I'm very interested to see how far this has progressed in the last year. Cheers, Tom -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
