Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation

[Petar Dimitrijevic]

forgottenwizard wrote:
> On 19:42 Thu 27 Sep     , Petar Dimitrijevic wrote:
>
>> Hi ppl,
>>
>> My basic idea is to have chroot-ed environment which will be the full
>> system and then to install separate system with only minimal stuff (without
>> gcc, portage, ...). When I need to update the minimal system I will first
>> update the chrooted one and the emerge the updates onto the new one.
>>
>
> What it sounds like you want is an LFS system. Look at the -B option for
> emerge. That may have some of what you are looking for.
>
>
Hm I browsed through emerge man page but I'm unable to find the -B 
option. Is this maybe --build option ?
>> I wanted to ask if somebody has done something like this, is something like
>> this possible and are there any wiki's or howto's on this topic. I've tried
>> searching through the handbook and google-ing but had no luck.
>>
>
> I thought about doing this once before, but what is going to make the
> diffrence is how minimal you want the system. Are we talking a kernel +
> [ba|z]sh + coreutils or are we talking a tiny Apache server?
>
Well I want to have couple of variations:
1. Apache, php, python,
2. Xorg, python, wxwindows

So I guess they wouldn't be too small. My expectations are that the fs 
size would be <= 256 MB to 400 MB. My target is VIA C3 Nemiah board with 
128MB RAM and 512MB CF Card.
> If you want the absolute minimal, then I would look some into LFS since
> Gentoo wants to install so much by default (gcc, bash, coreutils, wget,
> ect).
>
>
I thought about checking out LFS but Gentoo seemed simpler to try. Also 
because of portage the system is easier to upgrade. But if I can't get 
what I need I guess I'll try LFS.
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