From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ecTFEs9NpW+JH2FTWyGfyEaxX1yzp3zfmW4P3qjeEg0aQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 7:15 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> 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)
>
> --
> :wq
OK - I'll take a different pov for fun. Consider using Windows... ;-O
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.
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.
HTH,
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-23 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-23 2:15 [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs Michael Mol
2011-09-23 11:42 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-23 12:58 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-23 14:33 ` Mick
2011-09-23 14:48 ` [gentoo-user] Re: OT: google search results (was: Modifying LiveCDs) Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-23 14:58 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-27 3:14 ` Walter Dnes
2011-09-23 15:07 ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-23 16:02 ` Mick
2011-09-24 9:28 ` Mick
2011-09-23 14:52 ` [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs Michael Mol
2011-09-23 14:37 ` Jonas de Buhr
2011-09-23 14:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-23 14:52 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-09-23 16:34 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2011-09-23 16:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-23 17:13 ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2011-09-23 17:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Mol
2011-09-23 18:03 ` Mark Knecht
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