Gentoo Linux test image
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I took an experimental stage3 tarball for arm64 (http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/arm64/) and integrated that with longsleep's simple-image to get a working solution. For the actual installation I just plugged the card into a cardreader and used the normal Ubuntu image to bootstrap the system. Following the Gentoo installation handbook works just like normal, just skip the parts about building a kernel / installing a bootloader of course... so if you want to try running Gentoo on the Pine, feel free to play with this test image:

http://itsdave.co.uk/pine64/Gentoo/gentoo-pine64-20160804.img.gz  md5sum: 2F049A4C2C16A3AF827E5A43C6C46DEB

Upload fixed, thanks to ItsDave for hosting the file!

I upgraded the packages of the stage 3 tarball and rebuilt most packages on the live system afterwards, added longsleep's platform scripts and corekeeper is already running in the background. So far I didn't hit any obstacles with installing / compiling packages for ARM64...

A dhcp client and a sshd are listening on eth0 and the default user/pw is 'gentoo/gentoo' , root password is also 'gentoo' so you might want to change that :-)

Of course this all comes with no warranty for anything whatsoever, but if you have a need for Gentoo, you probably already know what you are doing.

There will be no official support for this image, but feel free to ask questions and suggest additions to the base image!

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2016-08-07 Update 1: If you run out of RAM while building larger projects (especially C++ ), try setting MAKEOPTS="-j3" instead of -j5

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2017-01-15 Update 2: As shaggy013 pointed out, there are actually autobuilds for arm64 stage3 tarballs : http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/gentoo...ge3-arm64/

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Messages In This Thread
Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 08-04-2016, 01:58 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 08-05-2016, 02:34 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 08-07-2016, 07:47 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by jkmooney - 08-28-2016, 09:17 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by Detritus - 09-18-2016, 12:12 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by tampadave - 09-24-2016, 12:16 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by jkmooney - 10-01-2016, 06:31 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by jkmooney - 10-01-2016, 07:36 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by kevinava - 12-12-2016, 02:01 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 01-07-2017, 07:04 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by shaggy013 - 01-15-2017, 05:32 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 01-15-2017, 05:48 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by ivantheviking - 02-28-2017, 11:41 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 02-28-2017, 11:48 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by ivantheviking - 02-28-2017, 06:30 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by xalius - 03-24-2017, 06:05 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by incoherent - 12-09-2017, 01:04 PM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by necrose99 - 04-28-2018, 08:41 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by robopsi - 06-25-2018, 04:47 AM
RE: Gentoo Linux test image - by tllim - 06-26-2018, 12:39 PM
Gentoo Linux test image - by necrose99 - 01-28-2019, 11:05 PM

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