Gentoo Installation (for beginners like me)

[Little Brother]

Looking for a bare linuxdistro I tried to install Gentoo (after using vidalinux for some time)
Here you find the steps i used to install Gentoo on my box... If you have remarks, don't hesitate to add it in here

Gentoo Installatie Guide on a PENTIUM 4 (by LittleBrother)
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1. boot from the Gentoo CD

2. press enter --> 'livecd root #'

3. #loadkeys be-latin1 (Belgian Keyboard Layout)

4. #passwd

5. Check networkconnection :
#/sbin/ifconfig
Check DNS Server from your internetprovider
ping -c 3 www.google.be
(#nano -w /etc/resolv.conf)
when not configured automatical : net-setup eth0
manual dhcp-configuration : dhcpcd eth0

6. Set Date/time :
#date

7. Filesystem - Partitioning
# fdisk /dev/hda
When partitionlayout is made, make te filesystem :
#mke2fs -j /dev/hda1 (ext3)
#mkswap /dev/hda2 (swap)
#mke2fs -j /dev/hda3 (ext3)
#mke2fs -j /dev/hda4 (ext3)

8. Mount Partitions :
# swapon /dev/hda2
# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

9. tarballs and chroot
# ls /mnt/cdrom/stages
# cd /mnt/gentoo
# tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-....tar.bz2
GRP/Snapshots
# tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-yyyymmdd.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr
Mirror Select
# mirror -a -s4 -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf

10. Chroot
# mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
# cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env -update
# source /etc/profile

11. Gentoo optimalisation
# nano -w /etc/make.conf (when problems with make.conf : cp /etc/make.conf.example /etc/make.conf)
# fill in 'cflags="..."

# locate -u

12. Timezone
# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Brussels /etc/localtime

13./etc/fstab
# nano -w /etc/fstab

14. Install Kernel en Syslogger
# emerge -s sources | more
# emerge gentoo-dev-sources
# emerge -k genkernel
# genkernel all

15. Install other important tools
# emerge -k hotplug
# rc-update add hotplug default
# emerge -l nvidia-kernel
# emerge -k app-admin/syslog-ng
# rc-update add syslog-ng default
# emerge -k sys-apps/dcron
# rc-update add dcron default
# crontab /etc/crontab

16. Compile other necessary packages
(when laptop : emerge -k sys-apps/pcmcia-cs)

17. Rootpasword
# passwd

18. Add user
# useradd 'xxxxxxxx' -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash
# passwd 'xxxxxxx'

19. Set Hostname
# echo 'linuxbox' > /etc/hostname
# echo xxxxxxx.com > /etc/dnsdomainname

20. change /etc/hosts
# nano -w /etc/hosts
put behind localhost : 'xxxxxxx'

21. netwerkconfiguratie
# nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
when eth0 is automatic ip => iface_eth0 => dhcp
# rc-update add net.eth0 default

22. Configureren basicsettings
# nano -w /etc/rc.conf

23 configureBootloader
# emerge lilo
# nano -w /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
delay=50
default=gentoo

image=/boot/kernel-2.6.7-gentoo-r11
label=gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/hda3

#other=/dev/hde1
#label=Winxp

# /sbin/lilo

24. Basic packages :
# emerge -k xfree

25 Installation done!!!
# exit
# cd /
# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
# /proc
# /dev
# umount /mnt/gentoo
# reboot (remove cd from CD-ROM)

26 After booting
# emerge -k xfree gnome kde mozilla openoffice-bin
# /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config --> # xorgconfig

That should be all!!! Have fun!!!

update
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...x86.xml?full=1

[Shrekkie]

nice overview LB, but I'd still recommend people to follow the gentoo online handbook since some people still might not now what they've done after following list.
Also they would be lucky if this one would work, cause this would mean they have an exact same system as you.

For.example the nvidia specific compiles are not ok for ati cards. As logic as it seems, people still are too bloated to follow a tut blindly. but ok that would not be your fault

Also I'd recommend too to use Xorg instead of Xfree, since xfree is not supported actively anymore by the gentoo community.

Anyway it is an ok reference but you might wanna give the real url to the gentoo handbook to for people that meed more info on the install.
Also I'd like to advise people to really carefully examine the /etc/make.conf step, cause it just might be the most important conf-file on a gentoo distro.

Congratz on your new gentoo install, ya freak

LB, one more thing to do for you

#emerge sync
...
#emerge -u world

Cheers and nice work.