Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Petar Dimitrijevic <petar.dimitrijevic@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:13:40
Message-Id: 46FC3401.8070505@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation by Andreas Niederl
1 Andreas Niederl wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > Petar Dimitrijevic wrote:
5 >
6 >> Hi ppl,
7 >>
8 >> My basic idea is to have chroot-ed environment which will be the full
9 >> system and then to install separate system with only minimal stuff
10 >> (without gcc, portage, ...). When I need to update the minimal system I
11 >> will first update the chrooted one and the emerge the updates onto the
12 >> new one.
13 >>
14 >> So I got the stage3 tarball, unpacked it and and chrooted it. I've
15 >> updated all the packages and started installation of new packages with:
16 >> ROOT="/install" emerge ...
17 >>
18 >> I wanted to ask if somebody has done something like this, is something
19 >> like this possible and are there any wiki's or howto's on this topic.
20 >> I've tried searching through the handbook and google-ing but had no luck.
21 >>
22 >
23 > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo provides a somewhat extensive
24 > introduction to this as well as a long list of links to related web pages.
25 >
26 Thanks I'll give it a look.
27 > Note, that you have to include libstdc++.so yourself if you're not
28 > emerging gcc into your /install.
29 >
30 You mean just to copy libstdc++.so to /lib or emerge libstdc++ ?
31 > If you're not cross-compiling you might want to have a look at
32 > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml
33 >
34 I'm not cross compiling. I'm compiling the packages on i686 arch for
35 i686 arch. So I'll check this one too.
36 >
37 > Regards,
38 > Andi
39 >
40 Thanks for the pointers.
41 Petar
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation Andreas Niederl <rico32@×××.net>