many odd questions

[aych]

hey. its been a while! wow.. gentoo. first no more stage 1. then 2. and now theres no stages at all? ><!
i have a few questions. here goes!

1. can i make a 'live cd' on my external usb. so live cd auto config and detections. extra space on usb2 for programs and file storage?. so i want to create a working desktop enviroment where i can carry around, and only have the hardware change.

2. how do we put a little border on our vmterms. like the one gentoo live cd has. the purple border on the bottom.

3. more to come later =)

thanks guys

[yabbadabbadont]

1) Anything is possible. Read up on catalyst (spelling?) if you want to do this with Gentoo. I would suggest just using a recent version of Knoppix live cd image installed onto usb and updated such that it boots. (by the way, a manual stage3 install is *still* the safest way to install Gentoo) ((just do a quick search for 2006.0 CLI and see the hundreds of "help me!" posts))

2) Read up on gensplash and splashutils and the gentoo-sources kernel sources. (needed for the vesa-tng framebuffer driver)
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[olger901]

For question 0 (since you started with 1 ):
You can actually compile from a stage1 tarball, and the will stay availabe, it just not supported anymore, but if you have done so before you should know howto.

For question 1:
Yes, thats possible

For question 2:
Using gensplash and splashutils

For question 3:
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