On Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 4:22 PM tastytea <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2022-03-18 20:03+0100 n952162 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I rent a low-cost virtual server in the cloud. The platform offers me > > some choices in linux distributions, but I'm wondering if I can > > compile gentoo to run on it. Anybody have experience doing this? > > If the platform offers you access to the VGA output via VNC or whatever > and lets you mount an ISO in a virtual DVD drive, it pretty much works > like any other Gentoo install. > > Another option is to shrink your filesystem and partition, make a new > partition and install Gentoo from the old install. > > You could also try to make Grub boot into an ISO in your /boot > partition. If you don't have access to the VGA output, you could try to > find a ISO that starts an SSH server automatically and lets you set the > password via the kernel cmdline. > > Kind regards, tastytea > I've read this question and now I'm curious about how much it would cost to compile a Gentoo system into cloud. Anyone know this?
Regards, Raphael
