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On Friday 20 February 2009 20:53:55 James wrote: |
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> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes: |
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> > Let's face it, Ubuntu does a very good job of making LiveCDs that |
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> > JustWork, and this is not an area where gentoo has ever had any real |
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> > focus. |
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> OK. |
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> so I but up a ubuntu lived CD. |
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> SET up the disk (fdisk) |
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> follow the handbook setting up partions, file systems and such. |
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> Then setup chroot and at that point, |
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> copy over the 2008 stage3 and get the latest snapshot, |
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> thus following the rest of the handbook, more or less? |
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Yeah, pretty much just like that. |
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All that a LiveCD, or a so-called "host system" a-la LinuxFromScratch, or even |
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the Gentoo installer ever did, was give you a running kernel and a means to |
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unpack a stage and chroot into it. |
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Only one caveat - the LiveCD must support all the hardware and system features |
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you intend to use during the install. If you will need to read a filesystem on |
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an LVM lv for example, you will need an LVM-capable LiveCD - not all of them |
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are. Ubuntu for example isn't. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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