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On 11/04/2011 03:12 PM, David Rault wrote: |
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> Hi guys |
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> i've been using gentoo for quite some time now but i'm totally new to |
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> catalyst |
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> i've dumped the livedvd image on a USB key and it works fine (with |
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> persistence on secondary partition on the key) |
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> but there are a few customisation i'd like to make (custom packages, |
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> french locale, l10n for KDE, wifi settings/passkey for autostart...) |
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> so i was considering building my own live distrib (on USB key) |
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> yet i find it hard to get started (did not find many resources to get on |
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> track) |
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> * emerged catalyst |
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> * read the man page |
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> * checked out svn://anonsvn.gentoo.org/releng/trunk/releases/11.2 |
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> * browsed the catalyst page+FAQ on gentoo.org |
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> * browsed/searched through the mail archives |
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> |
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> is there : |
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> - some docs somewhere else ? |
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> - a script you guys might be using to perform autobuilds (and that might |
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> prove useful) ? |
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> - someone with a few minutes to write the few explanations needed to get |
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> started (and understand what i'm doing) |
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> right now i have a running system (clean install from last week!), a |
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> freshly baked catalyst (2.0.6.918) and the official 11.2 spec files from |
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> svn |
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> i guess the logical/easiest testrun would be to try and build the |
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> official live myself before customising my own |
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> thanks for your advice |
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> David |
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Hi David, |
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I wrote a small howto some months ago: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~armin76/howto_catalyst.txt |
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Although it doesn't cover installcds, and i have zero experience with |
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livecds/livedvds. I mean, i've played building installcds, which are |
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livecds but lack graphical interface, but thats pretty much it. |
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If you look at the installcds(i haven't looked at the livecds/dvds ones |
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from 10/11...) specs, you'll see they're quite simple. |
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The scripts for creating autobuilds are available here: |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/releng/trunk/tools/ |
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vapier also has a script to do autobuilds, although it only does |
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stage1-3: http://dev.gentoo.org/~vapier/build-stages |
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I agree that you should try to reproduce the 11.2 livecd/dvd(i don't |
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know if its a cd or dvd) and see if it builds+works out of the box. |
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Good luck |
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