On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > So I'm about to play with installing Gentoo on another system. > > Now, the ritual goes, grab the ISO, burn the ISO, grab the latest > stage3, the latest Portage, and go to town. > > What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and Portage snapshots onto the > ISO before burning, but I've never done anything with mastering > bootable discs. Could someone provide me with some pointers? > > (I don't strictly need to put it all one one disc; it's just an > opportunity to learn some more about systems through application) > > -- > :wq
OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O Sounds like a lot of work for a 1-off Linux install. Normally I download the tar files to another machine and then scp them over once the disks are partitioned and have a file system on them. Anyway, I completely understand wanting to do this. I've never had a need to do it for Gentoo and I'm sure there are some Linux tools out there for authoring the iso file. I have had to do this in the Windows world where my old XP install CD doesn't have the right drivers & service packs and because of hardware configurations wouldn't allow ejecting the Windows disk to get the drivers necessary for the new machine's install. There are some programs in the Windows world that do this sort of thing quite effectively. The term to Google is 'slipstreaming'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29 One I just Googled is IsoBuster. It looks interesting. http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/slipstreaming-windows-xp-to-create-bootable-cd/ I'm pretty certain you could even slipstream the Gentoo disk using a Windows VM running on Gentoo. Might be fun to try if you don't have a real Windows machine hanging around. I'm not certain whether these Windows programs would run under Wine but that's another way to go if you don't find what you want natively in Linux or don't want to spend the time getting down & dirty with all this iso stuff. HTH, Mark
