[ale] gentoo: not by the books?

Keith Hopkins hne at hopnet.net
Fri Aug 30 04:08:33 EDT 2002


Stephen Turner wrote:
> hey, i was looking for a distro that did a rather highly low end install,
> im thinking im going to have to make one tho, see i like gentoos package
> manager, and i just want to basically untar a hard disk image to my
> computer like gentoo does, something with the basic file structure (just
> the folders) and only the apps needed to use a package manager like emerge
> and compile them, unfortunately i havent been able to experiment or peruse
> the internet much due to my recent move, my only connection is at school
> which of course bans dl material. to my knowledge gentoo wgets its files
> during the bootstrap, basically i just want to skip a boot strap and only
> get the applications i want, i also like the flexability behind gentoo
> where you modify all the configs and such yourself, (i think there should
> be more docs explaining all configs in the system and what they do ;) but
> in any case is there a distro that does this? just tarballs a basic system
> to the hard disk that only has enough apps to get and compile? nothing
> more? i was thinking it would probobly be no more than 25 megs if that
> much but then maybe gentoo has portage in the tarball? i havent been able
> to look, but im able to check my email so i figured id ask :) sorry if
> this is a dumb waste of time question, thanks for your time and help :)
> 
> ps: im really bored :-p ill shut up now.

:-)  If I can get a word in here now...

1) Linux From Scratch (http://tldp.org/guides.html#lfs)

2) Gentoo

3) Minimalist Distros (http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html select Category "Minimalist")  Make note of the "bootable business card".

-- 
Lost in Tokyo,
   Keith



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