PixieLive

This guide is not for newbies, i will not explain every command in the details, it would take too much time and you could damage your system if you don't know what you are doing.

For the commands you don't know "man", "gentoo wiki" and "google" are your friends.

I cannot guarantee everything is done in the best way here, it worked on my computer so it should on your.

Let's get started:

• backup all of your documents
• backup your windows partition if you think you will need it in future
• make sure you have a backup of all your documents and software
• double check you have a backup of all your documents and software (on a different disk)

• boot PixieLive4 as usual
• Prepare an empty partition on your disk, at least 10GB (you can use fdisk or gparted)
• open a terminal window and become root
  • su
• format the partition you created as ext3 (ext4 won't boot with grub-1)
  • mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdaX #where X is the partition number
• prepare the mount directory
  • mkdir /gentoohdd
• mount the partition in the directory (replace the X with your partition number)
  • mount /dev/sdaX /gentoohdd
  • recursively copy the content of every module on the partition (notice the / after $i, it's important). It will take a looong time
    • for i in /mnt/live/memory/bundles/*; do rsync -a "$i/" /gentoohdd; done
  • copy the /dev directory
    • cp -a /dev /gentoohdd
  • create the some missing directories:
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/sys
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/proc
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/run
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/tmp
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/mnt
    • mkdir /gentoohdd/media
  • create the fstab file (replace the X with your partition number)
    • echo "/dev/sdaX / ext3 noatime 0 1" > /gentoohdd/etc/fstab
  • install grub
    • grub-install --root-directory=/gentoohdd /dev/sda
  • copy the kernel in place
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    • cp /mnt/live/memory/data/PixieLive4/boot/vmlinuz /gentoohdd/boot
  • create a grub menu configuration (replace the Y with your partition number in the grub way, usually Y=X-1)
    • nano /gentoohdd/boot/grub/menu.lst
      • ##############################
      • default 0
      • timeout 5
      • title PixieLive4-HDD
      • root (hd0,Y) # usually Y = X-1
      • kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdaX
      • # you don't need this part if you don't have Windows installed
      • title Windows
      • rootnoverify (hd0,0) # assuming windows is on the first partition of the first disk
      • makeactive
      • chainloader +1
      • ##############################
  • remove unneeded pixielive init scripts
    • rm /gentoohdd/etc/init.d/pixielive*
    • rm /gentoohdd/etc/conf.d/pixielive*
    • rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/default/pixielive*
    • rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/boot/pixielive*
    • rm /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown/*
  • rebuild the shutdown runlevel
    • ln -s /etc/init.d/killprocs /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
    • ln -s /etc/init.d/mount-ro /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
    • ln -s /etc/init.d/savecache /gentoohdd/etc/runlevels/shutdown
  • copy the xorg.conf
    • cp -a /etc/X11/xorg.conf /gentoohdd/etc/X11
  • unmount the gentoohdd partition
    • umount /gentoohdd
  • reboot from the hdd