Gentoo Installation

Gentoo is a source-based linux distribution.source-based means every application is compiled locally.

You can download a copy of gentoo Here

To install gentoo you will need to create a bootable LiveCD or LiveUSB.

There are many ways one could create a LiveCD or LiveUSB, but that is outside of the scope of Gentoo Installation

Virtual Machine Setup

If you want to set up Gentoo within a virtual machine you will need at least:

• Around 512MB to 1GB of RAM
• At least 10GB HDD
• Networking features enabled

And preferably multiple cores on an x86_64 processor

Hard Drive Setup

  ls /dev | grep sd
  cfdisk /dev/sda

cfdisk will then bring you into an ncurses gui.

Use cfdisk to:

1. Create 100MB Partition Bootable at the Beginning
2. Create 2048MB Partition at the beginning
3. Create remaining free space partition at the beginning

Choose to Write tables to disk, and then exit.

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sda3
mount -t reiserfs /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo ; cd /mnt/gentoo
wget http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/releases/x86/current-stage3/stage3-i686-20110614.tar.bz2

for the below line, you can simply press the TAB button after stage3 and it will automatically complete the command, just press enter to confirm it

tar xvpjf stage3*
swapon /dev/sda2
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf

Okay, now you've set up your hard drives, downloaded a copy of gentoo on your live environment, and copied resolv.conf over.

 Before continuing make sure you can access the internet. 

you can test this by pinging google:

ping -c 2 google.com

if it isn't working, try the following:

you might need to do this each time you reboot

   
    ifconfig eth0 down && ifconfig eth0 up
    dhcpcd eth0

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Base installation and Configuration

Remember the number in the output of this command, you will need it later.

grep -ci "processor" /proc/cpuinfo

Download & Extract portage to /mnt/gentoo/usr/

   cd /mnt/gentoo/usr/
   wget http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/releases/snapshots/current/portage-latest.tar.bz2
   tar xvjf portage-latest.tar.bz2

Open make.conf in nano.

   cd /mnt/gentoo/etc/
   nano make.conf

Modify make.conf as follows:

Do not modify the CHOST, this will cause problems!