From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R79vA-00031L-Hc for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:52:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A4A5721C12B; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:52:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f53.google.com (mail-bw0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA85021C04E for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkbzt12 with SMTP id zt12so4765687bkb.40 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=7O+Bw9EVPlVl6AsvmNTiy07KJVR6fgZfRFeHs6aS7x0=; b=Sh6tkp+DoHus96ocsod1cf2SpODrPgsfOS9tQXdfHEFSwe0epFFYnmKE0GsnDV3sh8 hZRYLRHMWkEm/6j6Y0EugRTSk6kr5QC0gEl014Q+GQnz5rDPApqOQQu8i06oqYJ/+UHh +APZzbZl7o+ml0qt+6lKBWhN1kM+hL3/p11Ro= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.157.142 with SMTP id b14mr2656108bkx.337.1316800262719; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.177.199 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:51:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:51:02 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs From: Michael Mol To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 5a1bd65785bd5b06872ccec2f753a7e1 On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol wrote: >> So I'm about to play with installing Gentoo on another system. >> >> Now, the ritual goes, grab the ISO, burn the ISO, grab the latest >> stage3, the latest Portage, and go to town. >> >> What I'd like to do is drop the stage3 and Portage snapshots onto the >> ISO before burning, but I've never done anything with mastering >> bootable discs. Could someone provide me with some pointers? >> >> (I don't strictly need to put it all one one disc; it's just an >> opportunity to learn some more about systems through application) > > OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O Heh. That's the day job. This is skill-building. :) > > Sounds like a lot of work for a 1-off Linux install. Normally I > download the tar files to another machine and then scp them over once > the disks are partitioned and have a file system on them. Yup, that's what I normally do, too. As I said, though, this is skill-building. > > Anyway, I completely understand wanting to do this. I've never had a > need to do it for Gentoo and I'm sure there are some Linux tools out > there for authoring the iso file. I have had to do this in the Windows > world where my old XP install CD doesn't have the right drivers & > service packs and because of hardware configurations wouldn't allow > ejecting the Windows disk to get the drivers necessary for the new > machine's install. There are some programs in the Windows world that > do this sort of thing quite effectively. The term to Google is > 'slipstreaming'. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29 > > One I just Googled is IsoBuster. It looks interesting. > > http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/slipstreaming-windows-xp-to-create-bootable-cd/ > > I'm pretty certain you could even slipstream the Gentoo disk using a > Windows VM running on Gentoo. Might be fun to try if you don't have a > real Windows machine hanging around. I'm not certain whether these > Windows programs would run under Wine but that's another way to go if > you don't find what you want natively in Linux or don't want to spend > the time getting down & dirty with all this iso stuff. Yeah, I've got a coworker who's done slipstream install discs for our Windows VMs in the past. That got a little easier with VMWare templates, though. Anyway, thanks for the replies. -- :wq