That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system?
On 6/2/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6/2/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 18:00, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > After a few long+slow stage 1 installs, I want to give up the macho > > > act and do a stage 2 or 3 next time. Am I correct to assume that I can > > > set up CFLAGS and USE, and start "emerge --system" and "emerge --world" > > > later on when I'm going away for the weekend<g>? > > > > > > Also, I notice that CHOST is not supposed to be changed from i386 for > > > a stage 2 or 3 install. Does that affect things later? > > > > Personally, I do a stage 3 install, then edit /etc/make.conf, then run > > > > emerge sync > > > > After I have the new portage tree, I then > > > > emerge --update --deep --newuse world > > > > I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without having to > > re-compile working stuff that needs no changes. > > > > -- > > Phil > > This is basically what I understand also although I've been doing an > --emptytree also just to ensure that absolutely everything is rebuilt. > Probably that's over kill but complete. > > I actually wish the Stage 3 build could be simplified even a bit > further. I wish it would install the Live-CD version (kernel and > modules) to the hard drive and then allow me to reboot using that > kernel. Then I'd update glibc, gcc, etc., build the first permanant > kernel from the hard drive instead of from the CD and finally be ready > to go. As it is I always feel I need to rebuild the kernel clean since > I've updated gcc/glibc. > > I think this would be preferable to people who just want to get the > machine up and running ASAP and deal with finishing the job later. > > Cheers, > Mark > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- - Mark Shields -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
