Re: [gentoo-catalyst] 'stage4 tarball'

[Matthias Langer]

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 19:19 -0600, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Matthias Langer wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> tar -C /path/to/chroot/dir -cjpf /path/to/stage4.tar.bz2 .
>
> > 2.) Is there a way to eject the live-cd after booting, so that i can
> > insert a cd with my custom "stage 4" ?
>
> Add 'docache' (or something like that) to the kernel command line. It's
> documented somewhere :) Although, if both machines are on the same network, it'd
> probably be easier to just transfer the tarball via NFS, scp, http, etc. once
> the CD is booted.

Well, unfortunatly the machines aren't on the same network, but
hopefully it will work with 'docache' ...

Thanks for your tipps, and sorry for posting a bit off topic.
Matthias



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