Hello On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:16:58PM +0000, b.n. wrote: > Hi, > > I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. > I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old, low > specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself. > > The logic would be: > - create a chroot environment > - install a subgentoo in it > - emerge the needed sw in the subgentoo, tweak etc. > - create an installable medium <--??? > - install on the old box > > The "installable" needs not to be complete... I can install Grub by myself > on the box, for example, and just copy the files of the subgentoo on the > partitions. > > However I'd like to see some tutorial/advice/whatever about it.
This is not exactly what you have asked for, but I did install this way
on an old machine (1.5GB disc, 48MB ram) and it worked. You need to:
• Get some space for swap and create partitions
• Unpack the stage tarball (preferably stage3)
• Install nfs
(that time, I had to compile kernel for it, but I hope the today
livecd has one nfs-capable).
• Install distcc
Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots
of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not
compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. It is more or less
install the usual way, but with a great help of other computer by
network. The advantage is, you can keep updating the system the same
way.
Have a nice day
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