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COMPUNAUTA GENTOO LIVE (unofficial version)
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Gentoo Live DVD (download)

This version of Unofficial Gentoo Live by Compunauta is updated at the end of 2005 and start of 2006, we start with our version of Diskless Terminal Server and is ideal for carrying Gentoo on a USB disk or a DVD (DVD is too slow compared with USB2.0 hard drives) Personally I have a LAPTOP Hard drive on a USB2.0 box and I Enjoy this a lot.

Details of the system

GENTOOLC (GENTOO LIVE by www.compunauta.com)
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This version of Gentoo Live is complete, you'll find the content of
the RAM disc, sources of kernels, used portage, except distfiles 
my email is madgus@gmail.com  or gustavo@compunauta.com
If you want more to read visit:
http://www.compunauta.com/forums/linux/instalarlinux/gentoo_live_en.html

AUTHORS:
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Gustavo Guillermo Pérez - Live
Arturo Camacho Vazquez - system

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
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DVD Unit, or USBHD or IDEHDD or SATAHDD with at least 5GB of
free space (256+128 or more Recomended)

VIRTUAL MEMORY
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Is neccessary for work better to have Virtual Memory, just in case you
don't have more than 392MB of RAM, for meet this, we need a Virtual
Memory Partition, if you have installed another version of Linux
it would be recognized and used automatically.

IF THERE IS NOT PARTITION FOR VIRTUAL MEMORY
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If you don't have this kind of partition, you can make a file
called vram.000 (3 zeros) that would be prepared for the boot
proccess to be used as a virtual memory file, the minimum recomended
is 128MB that should be searched if you don't have enough Swap Partition
this file should not be greather than 392MB
On Linux you can make it:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=128 of=/mnt/windows_c/vram.000

On windows we use the program zeros.exe included in (utiles folder)
see the picture utiles/gentool_vram.png
The name of the file needs to be "c:\vram." for example without (3 zeros,
but with a dot)

NOTE: THE PROGRAM MAKE THE 3 ZEROS IN TE NAME OF THE FILE, DON'T
      FORGET THE ENDING DOT.

HOW TO INSTALL THIS ISO ONTO A HARD DRIVE OR OTHER MEDIA
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We can install Gentoo Live just copying the iso file onto any root
place of any partition without partitioning our hard drive
just extract an ISO from the DVD or place the downloaded one
on whatever place you have 4GB of free space.
This increases the speed of working 3 or 5 times than DVD
The file should be named "rootfs.iso", this file will be searched by
the small included ISO for writing onto a CD or CD-CARD
The file rootfs.iso can stay on any USB storage device like USB-TO-IDE
or CF, or MS, SM, xD, MC, or any USB PENDRIVE compatible.

From Linux:
dd if=/dev/dvd bs=1M of=/rootfs.iso

From Windows:
Use MagicIso and before to save, we choose the ISO type

NOTE: ONLY ISO TYPE IS COMPATIBLE

HELP:
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Try to write to my email:
Gustavo Guillermo madgus@gmail.com,gustavo@compunauta.com
Arturo Camacho Vazquez arcava2@compunauta.com,arcava2@gmail.com
And be patient or try the form inside the web page
http://www.compunauta.com/forums/linux/instalarlinux/gentoo_live_en.html

Mantaining the Packages

We can update, delete, install packages on our own ISO DVD, we mount the ISO or DVD:
mount -o loop rootfs.iso /mnt
mkdir /mygentoo
cp -Rpv /mnt/rootfs /mygentoo
chroot /mygentoo/rootfs
mkdir /distfiles
cd /usr; tar -xzvf portage.tgz
emerge stuffs
...
...
After that we can rebuild the DVD, copy the whole content of the DVD to /mygentoo/dvd/ less rootfs folder and we start to upgrade the new rootfs
mkdir /mygentoo/dvd
mkzftree -z 9 /mygentoo/rootfs /mygentoo/dvd/rootfs
If you wish to modify the ram disk is onto /mygentoo/dvd/boot_ram and for upgrade them we excecute ./mkram inside /mygentoo/dvd use the ./superulinux (review them) to generate our new ISO

SCREENSHOTS

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