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I'm looking for a nice compact LivecD to support a new installation. The Gentoo minimal install CD is about the perfect thing, except it does not support ZFS. The Gentoo LiveDVD does Support both cryptsetup/LUKS and ZFS, but does not have the newest builds (cannot mount an updated ZFS pool from ZfsOnLinux 0.6.2).
Ideally I would be able to use this to install Gentoo onto a machine with bare disks, and also to boot and mount those disks later should the need arise.
Of course not. I told you you have to install zfs, It is very easy, see the instructions here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS_Installation
– MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-11T14:49:56.397Sorry, I forgot: the package manager in Arch Linux is pacman. The command to install is
sudo pacman -S package_name
, the list of packages to install is in the reference above. – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-11T15:23:11.383If you are interested, I can later help you modify the install image to include these packages, so that when you burn the image to USB stick you will already have them. – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-11T15:24:41.360
You said building a custom ISO "may [be] helpful" not, "you must build a custom ISO to add ZFS support". P.S. these comments are threaded in the wrong place. – arantius – 2013-12-12T15:27:46.173
In fact, you do not have to. You may install those commands every time you need them. Or, if you use them very often, you may build a custom ISO. What do you mean by
threaded in the wrong place
? – MariusMatutiae – 2013-12-12T16:15:21.627