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From: "Christopher Díaz Riveros" <chrisadr@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personal Gentoo Installer project pre-alpha release
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2018 01:22:29
Message-Id: 1516065733.2510.39.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Personal Gentoo Installer project pre-alpha release by "Robin H. Johnson"
1 El lun, 15-01-2018 a las 18:18 +0000, Robin H. Johnson escribió:
2 > On Sun, Jan 14, 2018 at 01:01:59PM -0600, Matthew Thode wrote:
3 > > On 18-01-14 13:57:56, Christopher Díaz Riveros wrote:
4 > > > Good day devs, and users:
5 > > >
6 > > > generate: produces a stageX tarball. StageX contains some of
7 > > >
8 > > > the needed files to install and configure Gentoo linux,
9 > > > right
10 > > > now these files include:
11 > > >
12 > > > /etc/portage/*
13 > > > /etc/timezone
14 > > > /etc/locale.gen
15 > > > /var/lib/portage/world
16 > >
17 > > StageX sounds like stage4 :P
18 >
19 > If it's similar to some of the parts discussed in the original Gentoo
20 > Linux Installer project, stageX is just an overlay extracted AFTER
21 > stage3. It's much smaller than the stage4.
22 >
23
24 Right, the main idea is to have a complete set of configurations stored
25 as an additional layer, that way you just need to extract them in a new
26 stage3 installation, update the world and, in the best case, you just
27 have to compile the kernel and install the bootloader.
28
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30 Christopher Díaz Riveros
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