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Please read this message and following. Seems someone created an sf.net-project to develop Stateless Linux under Debian.

Now, the reactions on that post are just flamewars at Debian, but it really seems to be a nice project to follow up. If you're interested in contributing and development, go ahead ;-)

So yesterday, I configured my network. Because I had to go to a little birthday party, I couldn't work further on it.

Preparing the disks

I have a 80GB harddisk, so this is my partition sheme:
/dev/sda1 64MB /boot
/dev/sda2 512MB /
/dev/sda3 the rest -> LVM

So I made one LVM-cluster and made these logical partitions in it: /var /tmp /home swap /usr and /opt, each one 1GB big (swap is 512MB). All filesystems are XFS, /boot is ext3.

Installing the Gentoo Installation Files

I've chosen to download the latest stage1-tarball and portage-snapshot from the (Belnet-mirror. CHOST and CFLAGS were a bit difficult. Because of gcc3.3 doesn't recognize "march=pentium-m", wich my processor is, I had to bootstrap with "pentium4" until gcc. After gcc3.4 was installed (wich is in my package.keywords, ~x86), I could adapt the new pentium-m setting. Normally, I should use "-O3" for faster operation, but Ikke told me that's useless because the filesize makes it run slower so there's no netto-effect.

Installing the Gentoo Base System

My profile is the default one, I'll post my use-flags later, when my installation is complete and I can just copy-past ;-) I didn't touch locales, it also isn't in my use-flags, so now I'm bootstrapping and taking a nap :-D