From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ERP6e-0002aE-6u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:08:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9H76Ahu019659; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:06:10 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9H74Unt027604 for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 07:04:31 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x7so757194nzc for ; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:06:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=koSMPZwpo8EMYHSh0Gz2NjGvm7ggERSG8/KjN9+sUzOXPrG4KQVIpgi9dUUYFAobVXPDt8d9X8NBzNYrZWZeqh2aWTbbfXa5lYI4N75b2Hm8P6KI1vcA3677KdoQC/XALMg8/aShiJ6jbswtz43LKTRmFye/gwDfwvxkmz/2AJM= Received: by 10.37.15.41 with SMTP id s41mr2390397nzi; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:06:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.250.25 with HTTP; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 00:06:29 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:06:29 +0800 From: Shuduo Sang To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo Linux preinstalled In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j9H74Unt027604 X-Archives-Salt: 6fcc1e2e-633f-42ed-b5e0-ae7910b68614 X-Archives-Hash: 0b54d7b2dec97ac0d81c41dca6a71664 I want to know is there any way to install a gentoo to an embedded system? For example, ipaq. Because those samll devices do not have enough effort to build a system from stage1. But it still need a portage-like way to upgrade packages. 2005/10/14, Stefan Schweizer : > Hi, > > I want to preinstall Gentoo Linux on some devices for customers. Do > you have any tips for preinstallation, any scripts? What is the > correct prcedure of doing so? > Anyone knows of something like a "sysprep" script for linux that will > ask the costumer for user and passwort setup when he first switches > on the PC? > > On the technical side what I am currently doing is taking a normal > setup, cleaning up distfiles, /usr/src, /tmp, /home, creating a new > usser without any files of my own ;) > cleaning out all my passwords of /etc. > partimageing the partition, and dd'ing grub and sfdisking the partition table. > Then playing back the images on the HDs I want to put into the devices later. > > Regards, > Stefan > > -- > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list