Lone Coder: VirtualBox on Vista with a Gentoo Guest

[Jamon Camisso]

Ken Burtch wrote:
> My latest Lone Coder column, very long and technical:
> 
> "Regardless if you think Gentoo is genius or madness, a manual install
> represents the ultimate challenge to boot Linux on VirtualBox.
> 
> This document assumes you have a basic understanding of setting up a
> Linux computer, such as how to build a kernel and how to format a disk
> partition. "Host" refers to the operating system running VirtualBox, in
> this case, Windows Vista. "Guest" refers to the operating system running
> within VirtualBox, in this case, Gentoo Linux. I use "gentoo #" as a
> root Gentoo prompt but your actual prompt may be a different one...."
> 
> http://www.pegasoft.ca/coder/coder_october_2009.html
> 

If you have a working gentoo system, you can save compiling packages 
again by using prebuilt packages with emerge: 
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap4

You might also try funtoo, Daniel Robbins' git based Gentoo fork.
http://www.funtoo.org/en/funtoo/about/

Jamon
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