On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 20:11 -0800, Phani Babu Giddi wrote: > Hi Ned, > > That means I would still have to install Gentoo on a different > partition and chroot to this partition whenever I have to generate the > cross-devel related tools. Is that right ? Because once i generate the > cross development tools chain I would not have to go back to this. >
No need to re-slice up your disk. Simply. mkdir /opt/gentoo cd /opt/gentoo wget -O - -q $SOME_STAGEBALL | tar -jxvf - cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/ chroot . /bin/bash --login emerge --sync $EDITOR /etc/make.conf emerge crossdev crossdev -t XXXXXXXXXXX -options XXXX --more_options XXXX profit... > Regards, > Phani > > > On Jan 7, 2008 5:38 PM, Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to do what you are trying to accomplish, you should > create a > gentoo based chroot and do all your work in there. It will > ease the > pains caused by using a setup we never intended. > > > On Mon, 2008-01-07 at 16:47 -0800, Phani Babu Giddi wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I have a Fedora Core 8 based desktop and want to use it for > using the > > gentoo-embedded for creating cross compiling tools, > generating root > > file system and building linux kernel image and things like > that... > > > > So is it possible or is it necessary that for using > gentoo-embedded > > the host should be based on gentoo only ? I came across a > script which > > creates the portage/emerge and other tools but not sure if > Fedora will > > continue to work. Pleaes let me know. > > > > Regards, > > Phani > > > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- [email protected] mailing list
