Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation

[forgottenwizard <phrexianreaper@hushmail.com>]

On 19:42 Thu 27 Sep     , Petar Dimitrijevic wrote:
> Hi ppl,
>
> My basic idea is to have chroot-ed environment which will be the full 
> system and then to install separate system with only minimal stuff (without 
> gcc, portage, ...). When I need to update the minimal system I will first 
> update the chrooted one and the emerge the updates onto the new one.

What it sounds like you want is an LFS system. Look at the -B option for
emerge. That may have some of what you are looking for.

> I wanted to ask if somebody has done something like this, is something like 
> this possible and are there any wiki's or howto's on this topic. I've tried 
> searching through the handbook and google-ing but had no luck.

I thought about doing this once before, but what is going to make the
diffrence is how minimal you want the system. Are we talking a kernel +
[ba|z]sh + coreutils or are we talking a tiny Apache server?

If you want the absolute minimal, then I would look some into LFS since
Gentoo wants to install so much by default (gcc, bash, coreutils, wget,
ect).

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