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On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a |
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>> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. |
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>> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they |
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>> both worked fine for me. I've since deleted them as I wasn't using |
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>> them for anything other than seeing if I could make them work, etc. |
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>> How can we help? |
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> I think that if it is really that easy to build one for someone who knows |
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what they are doing (I'm in a similar boat as Harry, I've tried a few times |
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and couldn't get it to work), it would be great if there was a place for |
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users who feel so inclined to donate VMs that are ready to go... I would |
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love to get a basic Hardened install in a running VM that I could use as a |
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starting point... |
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> This would also make it really easy for new users to try out gentoo |
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without having to go through all the pain of installing it... |
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I'll try uploading my "stage3.9" somewhere... it contains *everything* |
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except the functional apps (e.g. database, webserver, etc). |
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The only thing necessary would be to install grub bootloader to the MBR, |
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and reboot. |
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Well, at least that's how I did it in my vSphere infrastructure :-) |
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Rgds, |
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