Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I'm talking about something stripped down. Perhaps not to a size of 8MB > but something less than 100MB would be good. > > How does one do that? > > This will be a box which will not have portage included once everything > is up. > > Most likely will be building with uclibc and the uclibc stage1. > > Any other pointers? And how does one substitute bash(and others) with > busybox can it be defined up front so it portage doesn't pull in the > dependencies etc? >
Have you seen this howto? http://gentoo-wiki.com/Embedded_Gentoo It recommends for you to chroot into a stage3 and then use the ROOT evironment variable to make portage install into an empty filesystem. Zac -- [email protected] mailing list
