Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
>> So I'm about to play with installing Gentoo on another system.
>>
>> Now, the ritual goes, grab the ISO, burn the ISO, grab the latest
>> stage3, the latest Portage, and go to town.
>>
>> What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and Portage snapshots onto the
>> ISO before burning, but I've never done anything with mastering
>> bootable discs. Could someone provide me with some pointers?
>>
>> (I don't strictly need to put it all one one disc; it's just an
>> opportunity to learn some more about systems through application)
>
> OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O

Heh. That's the day job. This is skill-building. :)

>
> Sounds like a lot of work for a 1-off Linux install. Normally I
> download the tar files to another machine and then scp them over once
> the disks are partitioned and have a file system on them.

Yup, that's what I normally do, too. As I said, though, this is skill-building.

>
> Anyway, I completely understand wanting to do this. I've never had a
> need to do it for Gentoo and I'm sure there are some Linux tools out
> there for authoring the iso file. I have had to do this in the Windows
> world where my old XP install CD doesn't have the right drivers &
> service packs and because of hardware configurations wouldn't allow
> ejecting the Windows disk to get the drivers necessary for the new
> machine's install. There are some programs in the Windows world that
> do this sort of thing quite effectively. The term to Google is
> 'slipstreaming'.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29
>
> One I just Googled is IsoBuster. It looks interesting.
>
> http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/slipstreaming-windows-xp-to-create-bootable-cd/
>
> I'm pretty certain you could even slipstream the Gentoo disk using a
> Windows VM running on Gentoo. Might be fun to try if you don't have a
> real Windows machine hanging around. I'm not certain whether these
> Windows programs would run under Wine but that's another way to go if
> you don't find what you want natively in Linux or don't want to spend
> the time getting down & dirty with all this iso stuff.

Yeah, I've got a coworker who's done slipstream install discs for our
Windows VMs in the past. That got a little easier with VMWare
templates, though.


Anyway, thanks for the replies.

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