On 2/3/21 2:42 PM, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:
I did. Sorry for the misinterpretation. Not familiar with debootstrap.
No problem. That's why I clarified.
The minimum required is probably just the stage3, plus a kernel package and a bootloader of some kind.
I'd like to do an old school stage1 or stage2 install / emerge of the root system if possible.
The method that tastytea mentioned seems quite interesting. I'm giving it a try now in a scratch directory to see what all it builds.
The kernel will actually come from a User Mode Linux binary on the host system. Launching that binary by hand also accounts for the boot loader.
The stage3 tarball is very minimal as it is. Of course one man's minimal is another man's bloat... so you could probably trim some things like ./usr/share
Perhaps I should take another look at the stage3 tarball. I've clearly learned that some of my other assumptions in this thread were wrong / sub-par. So it is only logical that the one about the stage3 is also wrong / sub-par.
Same. I only mentioned that because, as I already admitted, I was describing how to get as close to a full Ubuntu as possible.
Fair enough. I thank you for your help based on your understanding. -- Grant. . . . unix || die
