[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread Marc Blumentritt
b.n. schrieb: Yes, this is quite boring, since I wouldn't like to rely on network/double drive. Wouldn't it be possible to use a multisession cd/dvd with the gentoo cd in the first session and the tarball in the second (or editing the gentoo cd ISO)? I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-16 Thread b.n.
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: I d'ont know. I'm not good at this CD-ISO stuff, though I always use network, if possible. What about a USB-Stick (if you have USB 2.0)? Or possibly a second hard drive? Or you move the harddrive from your old machine to your build machine and build everything on it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-15 Thread b.n.
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4 tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball). To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this: tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot Boot

[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-14 Thread Marc Blumentritt
b.n. schrieb: Hi, I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing. I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old, low specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself. The logic would be: - create a chroot environment - install a subgentoo in it -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-14 Thread purple
in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name for it in boot prompt of livecd type: # gentoo docache greets :) -- purple..