gentoo linux stage4 install
Oh my!
After setting up a IBM Thinkpad T30 with gentoo linux and the works: we’re talking software supsend to disk a la hibernation (works better than WinXP hibernation), wireless/wifi, suspend, power-saving features, and of course a full on mirror of our dev environment (apache2, postgresql, subversion, php4.4, PEAR, Smarty, etc., etc.), I realized that this install was better than the Fedora Core 4 install I had going on a similar (same laptop)!
Of course, compiling KDE and some of the other components (X.org) took a very long time (several hours — overnight even), but it is fully optimized for the Mobile Pentium-4 and fast as heck!
So, rather than just follow the same steps to get my Fedora box up and functioning the same way, I simply made a Stage4 tarball of the system, copied it over to a removable USB storage drive, backed up a few things (homes, etc, root, etc.), then repartitioned, extracted the tar, and boom - out of box, amazing, working laptop with everything fully functioning.
I’ve never done a quicker install of Linux or any operating system. Amazing.
UPDATE: had to create one directory: /var/logs/apache2 — there was a symlink to this direcory that didn’t exist. Makes sense, no need to back up logs.
