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I see little point in having a seperate /boot. Especially as /boot just contains a kernel and grub config if you don't use genkernel. | I see little point in having a seperate /boot. Especially as /boot just contains a kernel and grub config if you don't use genkernel. | ||
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I failed pretty much at the first hurdle with this guide.
I'm guessing that stage3 has to be unpacked into the target directory (/mnt/gentoo), but the guide doesn't specify.
Where does mirrorselect come from? This looks like a Gentoo package but I can't find it for Debian thus can't install it in the rescue environment.
I didn't get any further than that, but some other thoughts:
- What's the point of splitting xvda into /boot and / if they are both going to be the same filesystem type (ext4 in this case)? Normally the only point in having a separate /boot on a VPS is if you want to use something more exotic like btrfs or LVM for your root.
- is --f-omit-frame-pointers a safe CFLAG?
- — Andy
In response.... Doing this in abstracted way (on a Xen VM at Home prior to moving it to Bitfolk). You don't need grub. Mirrorselect is from the Gentoo CD. Just use something sensible in /etc/portage/make.conf
- SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
- GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/gentoo http://mirror.qubenet.net/gentoo"
I see little point in having a seperate /boot. Especially as /boot just contains a kernel and grub config if you don't use genkernel.
--Jon Agland 22:50, 12 November 2013 (UTC)