well i'm trying to maybe use a bunch of different partitions and mount everything to a separate one say mount /usr/portage to something like /dev/hda5 or whatever and then when i'm done I should hopefully have a fully working / at one of the partitions, and then I can use dd to copy it to a flash.
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Vano D wrote: > On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 19:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have a script I put together that will 'emerge' packages into an > > alternate root using portage. My goal was a machine 'image' that I > > could stick in an embedded device, and if upgrades were needed I would > > upgrade the 'image' not individual packages. > > At the smallest so far, i put busybox+glibc+kernel in 50 megs(i know > > that's huge i compiled in locales and other junk), but right now I'm > > working on building a uclibc toolchain. And I should have that > > finished in about a week. > > I would be very interested in seeing how you went about doing this. As I > understand you use a host gentoo installation to "emerge" packages into > a clean root. What I wonder is what that root contains? Do you start > with a skeleton? If so what? and finally do you use the bin package > feature portage provides to carry this out? > > My eventual goal as I stated before is to have as lean/clean server > enviornment as possible and as a secondary consequence try to make > bootable CDs with custom selectable tools/apps. > > Regarding the -doc flag... I wonder how many packages support it. > > Cheers, > > Vano. > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
