gentoo stage 4

pantoffel · n00b Joined: 30 Jan 2003 Posts: 19

Ok here goes. I want stage 4 to be automated.

What I got:

- my partition backed up in a tarrball

What I would like to be automated

- a live cd including a script that boots in init,
- creating partition table
- mkfs the partition
- restore the tarball
- fix/restore mbr
- reboot

Is this already possible?

nixnut · Posted: Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:06 pm Post subject:

Moved from Installing Gentoo to Other Things Gentoo.
Not about getting gentoo installed in a supported way.

See:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-312817-highlight-stage4.html
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Gentoo_LiveCD_and_LiveUSB
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PMcCauley · Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 8:32 am Post subject:

Hello Pantoffel, you have to be careful when automating such options but basically you would create a script to do these operations and have the livecd set to execute that. For the partition table just copy the first 512 bytes of the drive I this the partition table is 446-512 (I was trying to confirm this and apparently could be 448-512). Then you would mkfs, untar and reboot.

to get mbr(includes partition table): dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr bs=512 count=1

to set mbr(includes partition table): dd if=mbr of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

Patrick