[gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

[Marc Blumentritt <marc.blumentritt@arcor.de>]

b.n. schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> I have looked a bit for this but I've found nothing.
> I'd like to create an installable disk ready-to-install on another old,
> low specs machine that cannot bear a Gentoo install by itself.
> 
> The logic would be:
> - create a chroot environment
> - install a subgentoo in it
> - emerge the needed sw in the subgentoo, tweak etc.
Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4
tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball).

To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this:
tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot

Boot your old machine with a gentoo live cd and create partitions
(follow the gentoo handbook to chapter 4) and copy your tarball to it.

After unpacking the tarball, your system is nearly finished. All you
need to do is to install grub (or your personal choice of bootloader)
and that's it.


For this method you do not need a special install medium. But you have
to find a way to copy the tarball to your system. Possible options are
scp or on cd (in this case you need a second drive or boot your cd with
the option to load the whole image to memory (I d'ont remember the name
for it), but since you said you have an old machine, the memory will be
small...).


Regards
Marc

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