On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 09:01 +0100, Martin Gysel wrote: > if you're on x86/amd64 and want to prepare a sdcard for e.g. arm. you > extract the stage3 to the card but then you can't just chroot and emerge > netifrc... > on the other hand, as long as busybox' default config includes a dhcp > client one can always call it manually, unfortunately to do so. you need > to have access to the system which isn't always guaranteed without network. > so I strongly vote against exclude a default network stack for stage3. > why not introduce a stage3 set which includes @system and other > important packages like the default network stack? > > /martin
Actually, it's quite easy to chroot into an arm rootfs on amd64/x86 if you have qemu or qemu-user installed. I do this on a daily basis. It's really not difficult at all. -- Steev
