Embedded Gentoo Developer HowTo

Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron@freaknet.org)

FreakNet MediaLab, Catania - http://www.freaknet.org - http://www.pallotron.net - http://www.vitadiunsysadmin.net

Copyright © 2005 Angelo Michele Failla (pallotron@freaknet.org)

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Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Audience
Requirements
Terminology

2. Create the development_rootfs

Prepare the development_rootfs

Become GOD
In what directory are we going to work?
Download and extract the last uClibc based stage1
Binding /proc and /usr/portage/
Copying the resolv.conf

Emerge the development_rootfs

Chrootting into the development_rootfs
Tuning of /etc/make.conf
Bootstrap the portage
Emerge system into our development_rootfs

3. Build the embedded_rootfs

Create the target directory

Emerge the baselayout

Some necessary adjustments to perform

Installing uClibc

Installing busybox

Setting timezone

Installing the Li.Lo. boot loader

Setting the root password

Compiling and installing the Linux kernel

Configure /etc/fstab

Installing other software packages with portage

Creating device nodes

Customize the init scripts

Create the squashfs

4. Copying the embedded_rootfs on the embedded disk

Method 1: Using the Slackware floppy disks

Bibliography

A. GNU Free Documentation License

PREAMBLE
APPLICABILITY AND DEFINITIONS
VERBATIM COPYING
COPYING IN QUANTITY
MODIFICATIONS
COMBINING DOCUMENTS
COLLECTIONS OF DOCUMENTS
AGGREGATION WITH INDEPENDENT WORKS
TRANSLATION
TERMINATION
FUTURE REVISIONS OF THIS LICENSE
ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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