Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello

On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:16:58PM +0000, b.n. wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing.
>  I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old, low
>  specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself.
>
>  The logic would be:
>  - create a chroot environment
>  - install a subgentoo in it
>  - emerge the needed sw in the subgentoo, tweak etc.
>  - create an installable medium <--???
>  - install on the old box
>
>  The "installable" needs not to be complete... I can install Grub by myself
>  on the box, for example, and just copy the files of the subgentoo on the
>  partitions.
>
>  However I'd like to see some tutorial/advice/whatever about it.

This is not exactly what you have asked for, but I did install this way
on an old machine (1.5GB disc, 48MB ram) and it worked. You need to:

• Get some space for swap and create partitions
• Unpack the stage tarball (preferably stage3)
• Install nfs
	(that time, I had to compile kernel for it, but I hope the today
	livecd has one nfs-capable).
• Install distcc

Now you can mount /var remotely (portage compiles there and needs lots
of space) - this way you need only the space for installed programs, not
compiling and compile on other machine using distcc. It is more or less
install the usual way, but with a great help of other computer by
network. The advantage is, you can keep updating the system the same
way.

Have a nice day

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