i want t build stages2 and 3 for "old" cpus exactly like the oficcial ones and cannot find docs on that.
*** This is a beta version of the doc. It might have a few glitches. *** The way the PPC crew did it was: In order to have a working stage3 you need all the parts mentioned in: http://gentoo.org/doc/build.html#doc_chap12 The easiest way so far is to simply boot off the install CD, follow the install processes specific for your arch, using cflags specific to your cpu and system. Be sure to be in a chroot when trying to create a stage3. During that install process you will run the command 'emerge system' which builds the contents of these dirs: /bin /dev /lib /opt /root /tmp /var /boot /etc /home /mnt /proc /sbin /usr You will need to rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/* in order to make the stage3 small enough to be downloadable From the / level of the HD tar and gzip the above mentioned dirs. Move file off box. This is your new stage 3. Enjoy
As some other docs say, ensure that you pass the "p" flag to tar so it will leave the permissions as they are meant to be. Other wise, your stage2/3 will be a mess of files with incorrect permissions and owners.
to comment #1: i miss a mention of stage2, a mention of xfsprogs, syslog, dcron, gentoo-sources and hints on how to clean up that tarball(s). to comment #2: tar's -p option is effective on unrolling the tar. read the man page for hints in an english better than mine... ;-) generally: some hrs ago the new stage tarballs of 1.3b were released. why are we guessing arround instead of getting an answer from the one who has built them?
Bart, perhaps you can provide these fine gentlemen some details?
"for old cpu's"? what are old cpu's? 1.3b has i486 tarballs, do you want i386 as well? I could provide that..
to comment #5: i want to be able to build the stages myself and before modifying things i want to set up and test my build process with the goal to build them exactly like the official ones. and i extend my question on stage1: does the text in the root of stage1 still apply to current ones? i'm unsure because it still speaks of build-* instead of stage1 and the version numbers mentioned are like 1.0*... P.S.: i really do not want to hurt or offend anyone... if something reads like this, please remember german being my native tounge, not english...
This is not for us documentation guys. This sounds like a packaging issue. Changed the header so it does not show up for us. //ZhEN
This is old and can likely be killed, since Ulf built the rc1 builds ;)
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