On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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) > > OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O
Heh. That's the day job. This is skill-building. :) > > 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. Yup, that's what I normally do, too. As I said, though, this is skill-building. > > 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. Yeah, I've got a coworker who's done slipstream install discs for our Windows VMs in the past. That got a little easier with VMWare templates, though. Anyway, thanks for the replies. -- :wq
