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On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying |
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> a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical. |
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Precisely. |
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> However, you will have to be able to compile a compatible kernel from |
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> your PC. Compatible usually means either your PC have the same |
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> architecture as your laptop (which means everything should be already |
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> setup) or you have to cross-compile the kernel. |
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Cross compiling the kernel is fairly trivial, but you need a |
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cross-toolchain. Building one with crosstool-NG isn't too hard, but |
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its' not trivial either. |
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> I've never done kernel cross-compiling, but it's definitely possible, |
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> you just need to modify modify some of the Makefile manually (search on |
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> google for a howto). |
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You don't actually need to modify the Makefile if you don't want to. |
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You can do it from the command line: |
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make ARCH=targetarch CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/cross/compiler |
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Grant |
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