User:Immolo/LiveCD

This is a guide will teach how to create to a custom Gentoo LiveCD based off the minimal ISO to be able to add custom programs to use it as task such as rescuecd or just to the user's preferred applications to help with the install process.

Build Environment Setup
Install dev-util/catalyst making sure the iso useflag is set

Create a directory to work in:

== Build Stage1 ==

Prepare Seed
A seed stage3 is needed to build the new stage4 for the target machine, this done by doing the following:

Select the best stage3 for the needs of the system (in this example stage3-i686-openrc-tar.xz was used.) Stage3 tarballs can be found at https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/.

Portage Snapshot
Portage snapshots are now handled in git and can be created and updated using:

You will see entry that states the Gentoo Portage snapshot name and will look similar to:

In this example take note of 0c5fd9cca1edc63e36234b3dc91c46db24647309 as it will be needed for the spec file.