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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Matt Harrison |
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<iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've got one of these Asus EEEPc's and I'm thinking about installing gentoo |
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> on it as the (xubuntu) distro isn't really up to par with gentoo IMHO. |
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> I'm not worried about messing things up as I can just re-image it with the |
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> supplied discs if something goes wrong but I do have a couple of questions. |
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> I've seen people writing about using USB sticks etc to install, I was just |
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> wondering, is there anything stopping me from just scp'ing across the stage3 |
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> and portage tarballs, extracting them somewhere and chrooting in. |
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> Then I should be able to complete the install from the chroot (although |
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> using distcc to speed up compilation times). |
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> Does anyone know why this might not be a good idea? |
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I simply installed a whole chroot in my main machine to do the |
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compiling, then rsynced the whole chroot to / on the EEE. I used the |
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default xandros to create a simple live SD to boot and rsync for the |
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first time, after that, the system is ready and the SD became backup |
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storage space. You can still compile stuff using your main machine, |
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and rsync the changes back to the EEE, saving a LOT of compile time. |
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Simple, fast (you don't want the EEE to compile X and compiz stuff, it |
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is really slow). And you save the space, cause you don't need to rsync |
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the portage tree and/or kernel sources, etc. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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