Re: [gentoo-catalyst] hang up on generating modprobe.conf

[Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>]

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On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 21:29 +0200, Simon Schäfer wrote:
> Why? Its used for the minimal installation cd of gentoo. (I got it from 
> their .spec - file). This is exactly what i want a minimal linux system with 
> nothing then a bootup that detects all my hardware loads all modules and as a 
> plus it should have a xinit to start a x based application (yes i know adding 
> X will increase the minimal CD by aprox. 25MB).

This is not what you will get.  If you are not a member of Release
Engineering, you should *never* use gentoo-release-* for livecd/type as
they are custom tailored to produce the output Release Engineering
expects, including ignoring certain spec fields and overriding them.
You *must* use generic-livecd if producing a CD o fyour own, especially
one with X on it.

> We (me and my roommate) are trying to build a small gentoo-based bootcd with 
> xinit. I hoped it could be easy to use catalyst, just some work on spec files 
> and then let catalyst do all the work instead of our collection of shell 
> scripts. I still hope it could be done this way couse sharing spec files is a 
> lot easier then sharing shell scripts and a not so simple howto

It would be fairly easy if you weren't fighting catalyst.  Use
livecd/type; generic-livecd and see things become dramatically easier
when stuff quits being done for you, assuming it'll be an official
Gentoo release and built 100% to Release Engineering standards and
practices.

-- 
Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering Strategic Lead
Alpha/AMD64/x86 Architecture Teams
Games Developer/Council Member/Foundation Trustee
Gentoo Foundation

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