Gentoo Archives: gentoo-embedded

From: Thierry Carrez <koon@g.o>
To: gentoo-embedded@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-embedded] Network appliance with sound
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:32:21
Message-Id: 43140B5E.1090105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: RE: [gentoo-embedded] Network appliance with sound by Marcel Romijn
1 Marcel Romijn wrote:
2
3 > I used genkernel, with the --minkernpackage and --modulespackage
4 > options, to create a kernel.tar.bz2 and modules.tar.bz2. This has
5 > support for ALSA and my sound interface. With gnap_remaster I created a
6 > new core.
7 >
8 > However, since I did not have my setup ready for CF, I tested it by
9 > using gnap_overlay to create an ISO. Booting from the ISO resulted in
10 > the following:
11 >
12 >>>Mounting squashfs filesystem
13 > mount: Mounting /newroot/mnt/cdrom/livecd.squash on /newroot/mnt/livecd
14 > failed: No such device
15
16 Maybe your kernel lacks squashfs support ?
17
18 > How can I emerge alsa-utils in such a way that I know which files it
19 > pulled down?
20 > If I just do an 'emerge alsa-utils', the files will end up in my
21 > development environment. Is there a way to isolate where the emerged
22 > files end up? Is it a chroot trick?
23
24 The "ebuild" command is your friend. For example :
25
26 ebuild /usr/portage/app-whatever/whatever-2.0.ebuild install
27
28 will unpack, compile, and prepare installation for whatever-2.0. The
29 image containing all the files will be located in :
30
31 /var/tmp/portage/whatever-2.0/install
32
33 --
34 Koon
35 --
36 gentoo-embedded@g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-embedded] Network appliance with sound Natanael Copa <mlists@××××××.org>