Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Installing Gentoo via Gentoo ?

[dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net>]

On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying
>> a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
> 
> Precisely.
> 
>> However, you will have to be able to compile a compatible kernel from
>> your PC. Compatible usually means either your PC have the same
>> architecture as your laptop (which means everything should be already
>> setup) or you have to cross-compile the kernel.
> 
> Cross compiling the kernel is fairly trivial, but you need a
> cross-toolchain.  Building one with crosstool-NG isn't too hard, but
> its' not trivial either.
> 
>> I've never done kernel cross-compiling, but it's definitely possible,
>> you just need to modify modify some of the Makefile manually (search on
>> google for a howto).
> 
> You don't actually need to modify the Makefile if you don't want to.
> You can do it from the command line:
> 
>   make ARCH=targetarch CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/cross/compiler
> 

I'm about to do the same thing.  My current disk is almost full and my
/usr partition isn't big enough, most of the time I can get it down to
95% but often goes to 100%.  In the next week or two I will move my
system to another drive with lvm or at least a different partition
configuration.  I'll either do a fresh install or a stage4 install.  You
may want to look into that:  a stage4 install.  The documentation is at
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 and it looks pretty good
and simple.  This may be the way you want to go.

dhk