Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

["b.n." <brullonulla@gmail.com>]

Marc Blumentritt ha scritto:

> Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4
> tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball).
> 
> To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this:
> tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot
> 
> Boot your old machine with a gentoo live cd and create partitions
> (follow the gentoo handbook to chapter 4) and copy your tarball to it.
> 
> After unpacking the tarball, your system is nearly finished. All you
> need to do is to install grub (or your personal choice of bootloader)
> and that's it.

Thanks a lot, that's more or less what I thought to do.
I hoped for some integrated solution that attached some kind of nice 
installer, but no problem.

> For this method you do not need a special install medium. But you have
> to find a way to copy the tarball to your system. 
 > Possible options are
 > scp or on cd (in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with
 > the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name
 > for it), but since you said you have an old machine, the memory will be
 > small...).


Yes, this is quite boring, since I wouldn't like to rely on 
network/double drive. Wouldn't it be possible to use a multisession 
cd/dvd with the gentoo cd in the first session and the tarball in the 
second (or editing the gentoo cd ISO)?

m.
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