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RPi headless and keyboardless Gentoo install

The goal here is to setup Gentoo Linux on an SDcard for my Raspberry Pi model B without display or USB keyboard.  Yep, I didn't have a HDMI cable and my USB keyboard died a long time ago... I followed this Quick Install Guide mostly.  I'll outline what I had to do different than the guide. I've been meaning to set up my distribution of choice on a RPi, and my work needs a little server upgrade to host some files securely.  Yes!  Now I finally have a good enough reason. Raspberry Pi model B with only power and LAN. Following the Guide Steps 1 through 3 can be done normally on a Linux system, as this is just prepping the SDcard. Parts of Step 4 need to be done before booting, so you can ssh in.  I couldn't chroot into the sdcard like I'm used to in a Gentoo linux install.  Kept getting /bin/bash Exec errors.  (I think it has to do with the different archs (armv6 vs x86) and the incampatible binaries?) Setting the root password manually ...

Geode LX800 cash-in

I discovered an AMD Geode processor lurking in a slim client SBC (single board computer) originally for a printer kiosk.  I wonder if I could fit a TinyGentoo  onto its 128MB compact flash card??? Introduction and overview I will utilize crossdev, and avoid any chrooting problems and mismatching CHOST/CFLAGS... Customize the target systems make.conf generated by crossdev. Compile and install packages into runtime tree. [picture of slim client and screen] >>>I'm writing this while my Gentoo system cross-compiles a i486-pc-linux-uclibc toolchain into /usr/i486-pc-linux-uclibc. There are many resources that I had to pull together to get this working: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Tiny_Gentoo  HOWTO guide to install a 5MB system on a USB flashdrive or similar http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/handbook/index.xml?full=1  Gentoo Embedded Handbook details cross-compiling for various dev boards http://judepereira.com/blog/going-...