06-01-2016, 06:15 PM
(05-29-2016, 08:20 AM)ilovegentoo Wrote: Hi,
I would like to know if there is any specific instruction on how to install Gentoo or Linux From Scratch on Pine64.
For raspberry pi I used to install raspbian and copy the firmware and kenrel files to my Gentoo installation.
I just wanted to know if there is any specific "setting" required in order to run a linux distribution on Pine64 or some firmware blobs and where I could find those.
Thank you very much in advance!
I use Gentoo also, but I don't have my pine64 yet. I did basically the same thing on my raspberry pi - use the kernel and firmware that they provide and attach it to gentoo's stage3.
For the pine64, I would start with one of Longlseep's debian or ubuntu images. Keep the boot partition, and copy everything from /lib/firmware and /lib/modules into your Gentoo root.
There's an "experimental" stage3 for arm64 at http://distfiles.gentoo.org/experimental/arm64/ - it hasn't been updated in a little while but I was able to work with just fine the other day in a chroot environment.