I know that it might be difficult to find the location in my tutorial you'd like to start/end, so I decided to consolidate the links with a brief overview of what's covered in each section. Hopefully, this will aid the readers. To clear up any confusion, this is an article that is linking to my other (newly mirrored) articles on my shiny new website. I've also taken the step of getting a sourceforge website/project started up and I will be using the SVN and web sharing to put out scripts that will help to automate this howto much more easily.

Best of luck to me!

Part 1: Know thy Enemy - Portage

• Basic Difficulties of squashing Gentoo into a small space
• Identification of Directories holding much of the storage space
• Overview of tools we will need

• Basic definition of Embedded System Development (host, target)
• How to setup your Host for development
• Extracting the Base Gentoo Stage 3 setup

• Developing the core Gentoo system for deployment
• Building kernel with needed options for USB boot
• Editing grub menu.lst for USB boot
• Installing X-windows and fluxbox

• Partitioning/Formatting USB Device
• Mounting for deployment
• Deployment of Gentoo onto thumbdrive
• Final setup of Grub.