Re: [gentoo-catalyst] 'stage4 tarball'

[Matthias Langer]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 15:50 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Matthias Langer wrote:
> > Is it possible to somehow build the complete p3 system with custom use
> > and cflags with my athlon-xp at home to get some kind of
> > 'stage4-tarball' that i just have to unpack to the hardisk of the
> > p3-system (instead of the stage3 tarball) ?
>
> Yes, but you don't need catalyst to do it. You can easily extract a stage3
> tarball into a directory, chroot into it, do whatever you want, exit the chroot,
> and then tar up the directory. The result is essentially a "stage4".
>
Thanks for your tip; However, two small questions remain:
1.) What options should i pass to tar when packing the chrooted
environment ?

2.) Is there a way to eject the live-cd after booting, so that i can
insert a cd with my custom "stage 4" ?

Matthias

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