From: Angel Martin <angel@...>
Date: 2004-03-13T01:54:41+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubyx OS version 42 (stage1 like download?)

El vie, 12-03-2004 a las 15:15, Andrew Walrond escribi�:
> On Friday 12 Mar 2004 14:02, Angel Martin wrote:
> >
> > Hi, i 'am currently a gentoo user :-)
> > I like ruby and i want to try rubyx, is any way to chroot some stage1
> > like?
> 
> I used to be a gentoo user :)
:-)

> Rubyx doesn't have any stages, like gentoo. You just type one little command 
> and sit back while your entire distro takes shape.

Umm, that means if you want to install it without download the entire iso,
you must have a working system with a full install of ruby and 
rubyx dependencies in it, no?
If I understood well the procedure is install rubyx(the package tool) in
your current distro, and do something like:
rubyx --root-dir /mnt/rubyx --install Base Net Disk --make-devices
and then chroot to /mnt/rubyx and you have a minimun system in that?

The other way appear to be download base and:
untar base-arch.tar.bz2 in a directory
I don't find theese files so i can't probe it myself so my question is?
Will be a minimun-i386.tar.bz2 for download to try the distro without
download a entire big ISO? 
Maybe this is rescue iso you mention in rubyx.org doc?

> If you can't be bothered to do the build, download one of the iso's (which 
> will appear shortly on ftp.rubyx.org). They contain pre-build basic distro 
> tarballs, not unlike a gentoo 'stage', which you can unpack and chroot into.
> See 'Installing Rubyx' on the homepage for more information.

The comparison with gentoo stage1 I made is for the "logic" of:
I download stage1(~8Mb),copy to dir, untar, chroot,config and
"scripts/bootstrap.sh" and that's all.

Thanks,
 Angel