On Friday 20 February 2009 20:53:55 James wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: > > Let's face it, Ubuntu does a very good job of making LiveCDs that > > JustWork, and this is not an area where gentoo has ever had any real > > focus. > > OK. > > so I but up a ubuntu lived CD. > SET up the disk (fdisk) > > follow the handbook setting up partions, file systems and such. > Then setup chroot and at that point, > copy over the 2008 stage3 and get the latest snapshot, > thus following the rest of the handbook, more or less?
Yeah, pretty much just like that. All that a LiveCD, or a so-called "host system" a-la LinuxFromScratch, or even the Gentoo installer ever did, was give you a running kernel and a means to unpack a stage and chroot into it. Only one caveat - the LiveCD must support all the hardware and system features you intend to use during the install. If you will need to read a filesystem on an LVM lv for example, you will need an LVM-capable LiveCD - not all of them are. Ubuntu for example isn't. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
