Funtoo stage3 box packer

This is a customized minimal stage3 snapshot of Funtoo Linux that is packaged into a Vagrant box file. Currently only a VirtualBox version is provided.

Operating system

• Latest Funtoo 1.4 stage3 tarball from https://build.funtoo.org/1.4-release-std/x86-64bit/intel64-nehalem/
• (Optional) Funtoo next stage3 tarball from https://build.funtoo.org/next/x86-64bit/generic_64/
• Box is bootstrapped using SystemRescueCD
• Architecture: x86-64bit, intel64-nehalem (compatible with most CPUs since 2008) respectively generic_64 (Funtoo next)
• Initial 20 GB dynamic sized HDD image (ext4), can be expanded
• Timezone: UTC
• NAT Networking using DHCP (virtio)
• Vagrant user vagrant with password vagrant (can get superuser via sudo without password), additionally using the default SSH authorized keys provided by Vagrant (see https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/tree/master/keys)
• Debian Linux kernel 6.1
• (Optional) VirtualBox Guest Additions
• Additionally installed utils:
  • sudo
  • usermode-utilities, bridge-utils and nfs-utils for advanced networking
  • acpid (enables graceful acpi shutdown for VirtualBox)
  • zerofree (fills empty hdd space with zeros)
  • growfs (resize disk partitions)
  • eclean-kernel (cleanup kernel sources and stale files)

Download pre-build images

Get the latest build from Vagrant Cloud: foobarlab/funtoo-stage3

Build your own using Packer

Install VirtualBox (extensions not needed), Vagrant and Packer.

The provided scripts require various commandline utils:

• bash
• wget
• curl
• jq
• nproc
• b2sum
• sha256sum
• git
• make
• sed
• awk
• grep
• pv

Please ensure these programs are installed and executable.

Type make for help, build your own box with make all.

Debugging build scripts

Prepend BUILD_DEBUG=true to the make command for verbose output.

Feedback and bug reports welcome

Please create an issue or submit a pull request.