Preparing Gentoo in vmware

KAMIKAZE_ · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 309 Location: Riga, Latvia

Hi! Is it possible to install Gentoo (with not-my-hardware-specific configuration) into vmware and then just copy this system to the another machine? Is it hard or maybe anyone tried to do that?
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Doc7 · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject:

this shouldn't be too hard.

- install gentoo inside your VM
- i recommend 1 root-partition + swap there
- don't bother with too much hardware-configuration (choose a chost... compatible to your physical machine) and tuning (e.g. X-configuration) since you probably have to do the most on your physical machine anyway
- install, update and configure as far as you wanna go
- tar/gz your root-partition to a place where you can reach it from your physical-machine

- boot you physical machine
- partition and mount your hd's
- untar/-gz to your new root
- chroot and finish all configuration steps needed, according to the gentoo handbook and inst. docs (kernel config, fstab, grub, ...)

hope, this helps a little
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KAMIKAZE_ · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 309 Location: Riga, Latvia

Thanx, will do

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KAMIKAZE_ · Guru Joined: 09 Oct 2003 Posts: 309 Location: Riga, Latvia

I have AMD Sempron (32bit) CPU. which arch of stages (stage3 for example) I need to use? x86 or i686?
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Underdone · Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:15 pm Post subject: