[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
b.n. schrieb: Yes, this is quite boring, since I wouldn't like to rely on network/double drive. Wouldn't it be possible to use a multisession cd/dvd with the gentoo cd in the first session and the tarball in the second (or editing the gentoo cd ISO)? I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO stuff, though I always use network, if possible. What about a USB-Stick (if you have USB 2.0)? Or possibly a second hard drive? Or you move the harddrive from your old machine to your build machine and build everything on it? In this way you do not need a tarball. OK, it is not very comfortable, but simple to realize and quite fast to do. Regards Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO stuff, though I always use network, if possible. What about a USB-Stick (if you have USB 2.0)? Or possibly a second hard drive? Or you move the harddrive from your old machine to your build machine and build everything on it? In this way you do not need a tarball. OK, it is not very comfortable, but simple to realize and quite fast to do. Problem is, I'd like a general solution that can work on any kind of machine, no matter if it's network connected, it has 1 or 2 cd drives etc. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4 tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball). To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this: tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot Boot your old machine with a gentoo live cd and create partitions (follow the gentoo handbook to chapter 4) and copy your tarball to it. After unpacking the tarball, your system is nearly finished. All you need to do is to install grub (or your personal choice of bootloader) and that's it. Thanks a lot, that's more or less what I thought to do. I hoped for some integrated solution that attached some kind of nice installer, but no problem. For this method you do not need a special install medium. But you have to find a way to copy the tarball to your system. Possible options are scp or on cd (in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name for it), but since you said you have an old machine, the memory will be small...). Yes, this is quite boring, since I wouldn't like to rely on network/double drive. Wouldn't it be possible to use a multisession cd/dvd with the gentoo cd in the first session and the tarball in the second (or editing the gentoo cd ISO)? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
b.n. schrieb: 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. Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4 tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball). To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this: tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot Boot your old machine with a gentoo live cd and create partitions (follow the gentoo handbook to chapter 4) and copy your tarball to it. After unpacking the tarball, your system is nearly finished. All you need to do is to install grub (or your personal choice of bootloader) and that's it. For this method you do not need a special install medium. But you have to find a way to copy the tarball to your system. Possible options are scp or on cd (in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name for it), but since you said you have an old machine, the memory will be small...). Regards Marc -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?
in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name for it in boot prompt of livecd type: # gentoo docache greets :) -- purple..
