On 2010-04-18, Lie Ryan <lie.1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Yes, you should be able to, installing Gentoo is basically just copying > a bunch of files to a partition in a harddisk, nothing magical.
Precisely. > However, you will have to be able to compile a compatible kernel from > your PC. Compatible usually means either your PC have the same > architecture as your laptop (which means everything should be already > setup) or you have to cross-compile the kernel. Cross compiling the kernel is fairly trivial, but you need a cross-toolchain. Building one with crosstool-NG isn't too hard, but its' not trivial either. > I've never done kernel cross-compiling, but it's definitely possible, > you just need to modify modify some of the Makefile manually (search on > google for a howto). You don't actually need to modify the Makefile if you don't want to. You can do it from the command line: make ARCH=targetarch CROSS_COMPILE=/path/to/cross/compiler -- Grant
