Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Stage 3 for Custom LiveCD

["Ben Calvert" <ben@stonehenge-net.com>]

Sean P. Kane said:
> I am working on creating a Multi-OS Rescue CD (i.e. not just for
> rescuing a Linux system) and am doing my first very basic test build
> with livecd-ng. I was wondering how one builds a custom stage3 tar,
> other then simply untarring it and copying your own files over.

I generally roll my own in a chrooted environment on my faster servers (3x
Dell 2650s with distcc ) and then tar up the results.  If you're doing
your own installs, you're not bound by what Daniel puts in the various
stages - mine typically have everything but the kernal compile, grub,
fstab, /etc/hosts, and /etc/hostname.  As much as I love watching things
compile, I'll never go back to compiling KDE on a standalone syste :)

OTOH, If you're building a rescue cd,  you don't actually need any stages
at all.  I regularly use the latest ISO to mount ntfs volumes and fix
issues with them.  I've never tried to mount a UFS volume, so I don't know
if this would work on a *BSD machine, but then those rarely need rescuing
anyway.

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