Re: [MiNT] Update Sparemint system with Gentoo - how?

[Alan Hourihane <alanh@fairlite.co.uk>]

On 01/04/12 09:06, Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:44:03 +0100, Alan Hourihane
> <alanh@fairlite.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>> Anyone else who installs GentooMiNT - please add observations to
>>> pre-lim doc - then we can get a proper doc out and get the "sample
>>> distro" updated - ie some people say they cant find init.. - so doc
>>> needs some other info (maybe Atari specific?)
>>
>> Yeah, I'd be interested in any feedback. But I do need to get the sample
>> distro updated.
>
> I have installed the sample distribution on my Firebee. But I don't
> use any init-scipts (or init at all). I only needed the fileutils, so
> Gentoo is slightly overkill in my case ;)
>
> I stole the tools I needed and put them in a tar-archive which is
> unpacked to /ram at each boot. So now I have a small and fast setup
> with just the tools I need. When Alan provides a distro compiled for
> Coldfire I will repeat this process.

You didn't need the sample distro at all then.

You could just suck down the relevant tarballs from...

http://gentoo.atariforge.org/files/sys-apps

That way you get the latest as well.

Alan.