I'm following the steps/script in http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 for making a custom Stage4. Though I haven't tried installing it, the make script seems to work since it build a stage4.tar.bz2 that's 21 Gigs.
Before I use it I was wondering what directories I can exclude to make it smaller. I would prefer to have the stage4 know what packages are to be installed without actually having the binary's in the stage4.tar.bz2 file. That way I can run "emerge -uDN world" to get everything back. For example open office is almost 10 Gigs, I would like to exclude that and just about everything else I installed over the years, but have it installed when I run the "emerge -uDN world" command. Thanks, dhk
