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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> So I'm about to play with installing Gentoo on another system. |
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> Now, the ritual goes, grab the ISO, burn the ISO, grab the latest |
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> stage3, the latest Portage, and go to town. |
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> What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and Portage snapshots onto the |
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> ISO before burning, but I've never done anything with mastering |
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> bootable discs. Could someone provide me with some pointers? |
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> (I don't strictly need to put it all one one disc; it's just an |
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> opportunity to learn some more about systems through application) |
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> -- |
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> :wq |
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OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O |
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Sounds like a lot of work for a 1-off Linux install. Normally I |
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download the tar files to another machine and then scp them over once |
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the disks are partitioned and have a file system on them. |
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Anyway, I completely understand wanting to do this. I've never had a |
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need to do it for Gentoo and I'm sure there are some Linux tools out |
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there for authoring the iso file. I have had to do this in the Windows |
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world where my old XP install CD doesn't have the right drivers & |
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service packs and because of hardware configurations wouldn't allow |
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ejecting the Windows disk to get the drivers necessary for the new |
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machine's install. There are some programs in the Windows world that |
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do this sort of thing quite effectively. The term to Google is |
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'slipstreaming'. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29 |
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One I just Googled is IsoBuster. It looks interesting. |
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http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/slipstreaming-windows-xp-to-create-bootable-cd/ |
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I'm pretty certain you could even slipstream the Gentoo disk using a |
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Windows VM running on Gentoo. Might be fun to try if you don't have a |
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real Windows machine hanging around. I'm not certain whether these |
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Windows programs would run under Wine but that's another way to go if |
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you don't find what you want natively in Linux or don't want to spend |
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the time getting down & dirty with all this iso stuff. |
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HTH, |
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Mark |
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