On 9 Dec 2009, at 22:35, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
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Installation is supposed to be an atomic operation - it starts then
continues till it ends. It either fully completes or is considered to
not have happened, meaning that persistence is diametrically
opposed to
what an install is.
OK, we don't live on the same planet. I have never completed a Linux
installation in a single sitting, and don't expect ever to do so.
Particularly on a distribution like Gentoo where so much has to be
done
by hand. (That's not a criticism, by the way. It's one of the things
which has attracted me to Gentoo.) You and others around this list
might
be supermen, I'm not, and I feel no shame about it.
You only chroot after untarring the stage 3.
When you do chroot then you emerge grub, the kernel and add sshd to
the default runlevel.
Remove the live CD, reboot.
Job done.
Obviously there's a lot more to do after this to get a *fully working*
operating system, but you should by this stage now be able to boot
from the hard-drive into your embryonic system, and from there you can
add a user, a system logger, cron, perform updates &c.
Stroller.
