On Sunday 05 Jul 2015 11:54:03 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Mick <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sunday 05 Jul 2015 09:43:07 [email protected] wrote: > >> Is it possible to install Gentoo Linux on a Nexus 7 tablet (one > >> WITHOUT phone functionality (no 3G)) ? > > > > Yes, as far as I know you can multiboot systems on this device, so cross- > > compile your Gentoo system and install it. It may be easier to compare > > drivers and modules with Ubuntu installations so as to get a head start. > > > > There is relevant post in the forums: > > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-998188.html > > You might want to give a bit of thought to what you mean by "install > Gentoo" as well. > > Do you want Gentoo on bare metal (ie you're going to either get some > kind of text console working, or x11)? Do you just want a chroot > running on a traditional android OS (that is trivial to do)? Do you > want something like prefix (which gives you a lot more Gentoo in the > Android space, but it is still running Android for the main OS)? That > forum post looks to be going down the route of Gentoo on bare metal. > > The advantage of the Prefix route is that you may be able to get more > traditional x11-oriented applications to run, while still having all > the device-optimized Android features and applications.
If you want to retain android and go down the prefix root, then you may want to give Gentoo RAP a look - it doesn't mention Nexus 7 but people report success with Nexus 5 and 10. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Android https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Prefix https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Prefix/libc -- Regards, Mick
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