On 04/18/2010 09:58 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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 >
I'm about to do the same thing. My current disk is almost full and my /usr partition isn't big enough, most of the time I can get it down to 95% but often goes to 100%. In the next week or two I will move my system to another drive with lvm or at least a different partition configuration. I'll either do a fresh install or a stage4 install. You may want to look into that: a stage4 install. The documentation is at http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Custom_Stage4 and it looks pretty good and simple. This may be the way you want to go. dhk
