On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > > On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a >> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. >> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they >> both worked fine for me. I've since deleted them as I wasn't using >> them for anything other than seeing if I could make them work, etc. >> >> How can we help? > > > I think that if it is really that easy to build one for someone who knows what they are doing (I'm in a similar boat as Harry, I've tried a few times and couldn't get it to work), it would be great if there was a place for users who feel so inclined to donate VMs that are ready to go... I would love to get a basic Hardened install in a running VM that I could use as a starting point... > > This would also make it really easy for new users to try out gentoo without having to go through all the pain of installing it... >
I'll try uploading my "stage3.9" somewhere... it contains *everything* except the functional apps (e.g. database, webserver, etc). The only thing necessary would be to install grub bootloader to the MBR, and reboot. Well, at least that's how I did it in my vSphere infrastructure :-) Rgds,
