I want to know is there any way to install a gentoo to an embedded system? For example, ipaq. Because those samll devices do not have enough effort to build a system from stage1. But it still need a portage-like way to upgrade packages.
2005/10/14, Stefan Schweizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do > you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the > correct prcedure of doing so? > Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will > ask the costumer for user and passwort setup when he first switches > on the PC? > > On the technical side what I am currently doing is taking a normal > setup, cleaning up distfiles, /usr/src, /tmp, /home, creating a new > usser without any files of my own ;) > cleaning out all my passwords of /etc. > partimageing the partition, and dd'ing grub and sfdisking the partition table. > Then playing back the images on the HDs I want to put into the devices later. > > Regards, > Stefan > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
