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 1R79L2-0003Rn-2d for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:15:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22B7E21C1F5; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:14:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com (mail-qy0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A4821C068 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 17:13:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk7 with SMTP id 7so4100765qyk.19 for ; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:31 -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=0gh4DK1y6Q36Cr/uhzzrBHOssIBPaYF2ANVC1R7Klv4=; b=Mw0wdZuZMNvl+3G9ZcrTq4PFcnE4DiQxg9PIeaVLnUkJt64VevWUBDC84bxFDdn1gE hMu+5DwYwNf9ZoAb15dcV54abovsucEznpN/g5PtHLfs0NqZLomV62YPmf3bY5QT7wkd diaq+3NxCAu1nUBxdBVFnh7iRlKkSqQNlIHXg= 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 10.224.202.198 with SMTP id ff6mr3089902qab.285.1316798011432; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.80.209 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:13:31 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modifying LiveCDs From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d3d08fa383dc626c6f05396eb6f1e6ee 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) > > -- > :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