From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ib11A-0003VS-A2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:35:32 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8RLPe4o023468; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:25:40 GMT Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l8RLL3kn018206 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:21:03 GMT Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 27 Sep 2007 21:21:03 -0000 Received: from M4223P002.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO [192.168.1.2]) [212.183.67.194] by mail.gmx.net (mp018) with SMTP; 27 Sep 2007 23:21:03 +0200 X-Authenticated: #6602278 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18dhRoX6igdgfYDGErjO3vlyPVaLegA8PXKWH/YkE 0UTecdlbcJI2W+ Message-ID: <46FC1EBE.3000801@gmx.net> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:21:02 +0200 From: Andreas Niederl User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070803) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo installation References: <46FBEB8D.5030601@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <46FBEB8D.5030601@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Archives-Salt: 86b9c37a-431a-40bd-b84e-121f87a9982d X-Archives-Hash: c786af6ab13597e270d91f5f91acfd6b Hi, 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. > > So I got the stage3 tarball, unpacked it and and chrooted it. I've > updated all the packages and started installation of new packages with: > ROOT="/install" emerge ... > > 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. http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo provides a somewhat extensive introduction to this as well as a long list of links to related web pages. Note, that you have to include libstdc++.so yourself if you're not emerging gcc into your /install. If you're not cross-compiling you might want to have a look at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/gnap.xml Regards, Andi -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list