Hi Ned, Many thanks, that is so cool. Otherwise I was planning to get tools for reducing the partition size and ....
Thanks, Phani On Jan 7, 2008 9:06 PM, Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > >
