User:Veremit/ARM catalyst setup

This page attempts to document setting up a Debian/Ubuntu ARM system to perform catalyst stage-building for Gentoo Linux.

The broad method goes as follows:
 * 1) Set up disk[s] - like this
 * 2) I recommend a separate partition for catalyst files, as these quickly become large
 * 3) Download a stage3 tarball - here
 * 4) Install to defined location
 * 5) Download portage snapshot and unpack
 * 6) Chroot into stage3 - reminder
 * 7) Create working folder
 * 8) emerge catalyst-9999 (whilst snapshots are current, patches are being submitted regularly)
 * 9) Check out releng repository to working folder
 * 10) Create working 'specs' folder, and copy relevant specs from releng.git into here
 * 11) set up or check out update scripts to keep specs updated
 * 12) alternatively you could try catalyst-auto - ymmv
 * 13) run catalyst and Wait ..
 * 14) go make lunch/coffee/etc
 * 15) wait some more
 * 16) voila - hopefully you have a tarball waiting for you, or a pile of errors.