Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 9 Dec 2009, at 22:35, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> ...
>> Installation is supposed to be an atomic operation - it starts then
>> continues till it ends. It either fully completes or is considered to
>> not have happened, meaning that persistence is diametrically  
>> opposed to
>> what an install is.
>
> OK, we don't live on the same planet.  I have never completed a Linux
> installation in a single sitting, and don't expect ever to do so.
> Particularly on a distribution like Gentoo where so much has to be  
> done
> by hand.  (That's not a criticism, by the way.  It's one of the things
> which has attracted me to Gentoo.)  You and others around this list  
> might
> be supermen, I'm not, and I feel no shame about it.

You only chroot after untarring the stage 3.

When you do chroot then you emerge grub, the kernel and add sshd to  
the default runlevel.

Remove the live CD, reboot.

Job done.

Obviously there's a lot more to do after this to get a *fully working*  
operating system, but you should by this stage now be able to boot  
from the hard-drive into your embryonic system, and from there you can  
add a user, a system logger, cron, perform updates &c.

Stroller.