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On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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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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I'm about to do the same thing. My current disk is almost full and my |
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/usr partition isn't big enough, most of the time I can get it down to |
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95% but often goes to 100%. In the next week or two I will move my |
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system to another drive with lvm or at least a different partition |
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configuration. I'll either do a fresh install or a stage4 install. You |
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may want to look into that: a stage4 install. The documentation is at |
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http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 and it looks pretty good |
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and simple. This may be the way you want to go. |
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dhk |
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