we did it! gentoo installed without ever touching a storage device.

it was a long journey, but as always we got to learn along the way

for instance, I learned how pivot_root works

this conudes the series, goodbye #installingadistrowithoutusingastoragedevice

heheheehheheehehehehehhehehehehehheheheheheheheh #installingadistrowithoutusingastoragedevice

after a long time of rebuilding everything that was built for the wrong CPU and then installing, let's give it a shot...

... dammit lads, laddetes and otherwise, we almost had it

fear not, this is recoverable! probably

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I'm seeing purple!

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well this is just going swimmingly isn't it

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after a series (hours) of miserable failures, I took inspiration (and the entirety of) takeover.sh: https://github.com/marcan/takeover.sh/

I am now on a fully ram backed filesystem. time to nuke

I guess takeover deserves a #coolthings (and the tracking #installingadistrowithoutusingastoragedevice)

this is still using hrmpf as a base btw

alright hrmpf booted without ever touching storage, time to nuke shit and install gentoo

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update: kexec is, for some reason, not leading to my screen getting initialized properly. time for netconsole

$ nc -ulp 1234

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[i] ~$ qemu-system-x86_64 -kernel "/boot/vmlinuz-$(uname -r)" -initrd initrd.lol
qemu: initrd is too large, cannot support.(max: 134053887, need 2835696640)
[i] ~ 1 $

fuckin (had to take a break)

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lets see if cding into a chroot and running ``find . | cpio --create > ../initrd.lol'' is enough to make an initrd

for tracking: #installingadistrowithoutusingastoragedevice