Published by Nick on 02 Mar 2008
Ok, so i made a slight oopsie when building the x86 livecd, seems i forgot that building a x86 chroot on amd64 system might cause problems, id seen the solution, read it then promptly ignore it.
So after emerging setarch as told and lauching the 32bit chroot with linux32 im now recompiling everything to make sure there are no hidden problems, so only 694 packages to go 
Published by Nick on 02 Mar 2008
So, ive finally managed to find a bit of free time now that work allows me the whole weekend to myself so ive been playing around with building a gentoo based livecd. Ive previously tried using catalyst, the official tool used by gentoo to build their livecd’s but its not exactly intuitive so ive been using a somewhat more manual way as detailed over on the gentoo wiki.
As with many wiki articles through its less of a guide and more of a jumble of ideas thrown onto a wiki page, which is a shame as if you dig through the crap there are quite a few handy tips and the basis for some scripts to simplify the process a bit. Ive taken many of these and hacked them around a bit to create something a bit easier to reuse. At the minute theres not much there, really just scripts to automate mounting, unmounting and generating the squashfs and cd image however ive a few more ideas id like to add based on stuff ive found useful while working on my cds.
Hopefully il have a basic x86 cd ready to go sometime in the next few days, sadly i suspect i broke the amd64 one when i got a little bit carried away tried to use openrc/baselayout2 on the livecd, while mostly it worked a few of the changes seem to have broken the hardware detection scripts used and i cant find any fixes, so looks like im starting from scratch again
What i am trying to decide on though is what to include on the livecds in terms of software, so far ive got networkmanager and possibly OSSv4 (initially disabled, but could be a nice way for people to test if it works for them), after that though i get a bit stuck, il probably throw in some more wifi drivers and thats it, im open to suggestions through 
