The installation ISOs are on the
Boot from the first Gentoo CD. Press <F1> and/or <F2> to see what boot options are available. Press <ENTER> at the bootscreen to continue with the default kernel. You'll eventually receive a prompt.
# date (Make sure your time and date is correct. If wrong, set it with date MMDDhhmmCCYY ) # modprobe module_name (Optional - Load any necessary modules) # net-setup eth0 (Configure the network) # fdisk /dev/hda (Partition your drive)
The recommended setup is a 64 meg boot volume with ext2, a swap partition twice the size of your available RAM, and the rest for your root partition using ReiserFS.
Initialise your partitions using
Continue by mounting the partitions and extracting the appropriate stage file.
(Activate the swap partition) # swapon /dev/hdax (Mount the root partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo (Create the boot mountpoint) # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot (Mount the boot partition) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/gentoo/boot (Go to the mountpoint) # cd /mnt/gentoo (Extract a stage tarball...) # tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage?-*.tar.bz2 (or download the latest tarball...) # links http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/x86/1.4/ ( ... and extract) # tar -xvjpf stage* (GRP-only: unpack a portage tree) # tar -xvjf /mnt/cdrom/snapshots/portage-*.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr (GRP-only: copy over distfiles) # cp -R /mnt/cdrom/distfiles /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/distfiles (GRP-only: copy over packages) # cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/packages (Select a mirror) # mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf (Copy over nameserver information) # cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf (Mount the proc filesystem) # mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc (Chroot into the new environment) # chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash (Load the necessary variables) # env-update; source /etc/profile (Network-only, non-GRP: update Portage) # emerge sync
Now we install Gentoo:
(Change USE, CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. Stage1 can also change CHOST) # nano -w /etc/make.conf (Stage1 only: bootstrap system) # cd /usr/portage; scripts/bootstrap.sh (Stage1, Stage2 only: install base system) # emerge system
Next we set up the necessary information:
(Set timezone information) # ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/path/to/timezonefile /etc/localtime (Edit fstab file) # nano -w /etc/fstab
Use the following as a
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass> /dev/hdax /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/hdax / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hdax none swap sw 0 0 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdax /mnt/dosc ntfs ro,noatime,umask=0222 0 0
Continue by installing the Linux kernel:
(Install the kernel sources) # emerge -k gentoo-sources (Configure your kernel using genkernel...) # emerge -k genkernel; genkernel (or (1) manually build your kernel) # cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig; ( (2) Include VM fs, /proc fs, /dev fs, /dev fs auto mount at boot) ( (3) Compile your kernel) # make dep && make clean bzImage modules modules_install ( (4) Copy over the kernel) # cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot; cp System.map /boot
Now install other tools you might want:
(Install system logger; choice: sysklogd, metalog, msyslog, syslog-ng) # emerge -k syslog-ng (Have the systemlogger automatically started at boot) # rc-update add syslog-ng default (Install cron daemon; choice: vcron, dcron, fcron) # emerge -k vcron (Have the cron daemon automatically started at boot) # rc-update add vcron default (genkernel users only: install hotplug) # emerge -k hotplug (genkernel users only: have hotplug automatically started at boot) # rc-update add hotplug default (Non-ext2,ext3 users only; choice: reiserfsprogs, xfsprogs, jfsutils) # emerge -k reiserfsprogs
If you need specialised kernel ebuilds, now is a good time to install them:
# emerge -k pcmcia-cs (or emu10k1, nforce-net, nforce-audio, e100, e1000, ati-drivers, rp-pppoe) # VIDEO_CARDS="yourcard" emerge xfree-drm (for ATI Radeon up to 9200, Rage128, Matrox, Voodoo and other cards)
Finalise the settings for your Gentoo system:
(Set root password) # passwd (Create a user) # useradd your_user -m -G users,wheel,audio -s /bin/bash (Set password for that user) # passwd your_user (Set the system hostname) # echo mymachine > /etc/hostname (Set the system domainname) # echo mydomain.com > /etc/dnsdomainname (Set the hostsfile, at least set "127.0.0.1 mymachine") # nano -w /etc/hosts
(Setup networking; dhcp-users should set iface_eth0="dhcp") # nano -w /etc/conf.d/net (List modules to be loaded at startup) # nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 (Configure basic system settings; follow comments) # nano -w /etc/rc.conf (Non-PCMCIA only: start networking automatically at boot) # rc-update add net.eth0 default (Only if you have multiple network interfaces:) (1) Create initscripts for each interface) # ln -s /etc/init.d/net.eth0 /etc/init.d/net.ethx (2) Automatically start at boot if no PCMCIA) # rc-update add net.ethx default (PCMCIA only: verify /etc/conf.d/pcmcia and load PCMCIA at boot) # rc-update add pcmcia boot
Now install a bootloader. Left is for grub, right for lilo:
# emerge -k grub | # emerge -k lilo # grub | # nano -w /etc/lilo.conf grub> root (hd0,0) (Boot partition) | boot=/dev/hda grub> setup (hd0) (Install on MBR) | prompt grub> quit | timeout=50 # nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf | default=gentoo default 0 | timeout 15 |# Genkernel only: splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz | image=/boot/kernel-<kernel version> | root=/dev/hda3 title=Gentoo Linux | label=gentoo root (hd0,0) |# Genkernel only: |# Non-genkernel only: kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-<kernel version> root=/dev/hda3 | image=/boot/bzImage initrd (hd0,0)/initrd-<kernel version> | root=/dev/hda3# Non-genkernel only: | label=gentoo kernel (hd0,0)/bzImage | |# For dualbooting: # For dualbooting: | other=/dev/hdaX title=Windows XP | label=windows root (hd0,5) | chainloader (hd0,5)+1 | # /sbin/lilo
Now unmount all partitions and reboot into your new system:
(Updating configuration files) # etc-update (Exiting the chroot) # exit; cd / (Unmounting partitions) # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo (Reboot; Remove the install CD from the tray) # reboot (After booting:) (ADSL-users only) # adsl-setup (GRP-users only, optional CD2 usage) ( (1) Mount CD2) # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ( (2) Copy over packages) # cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ ( (3) Install extra software) # emerge -k xfree gnome kde mozilla openoffice-bin ( (4) Configure your Xserver) # /usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
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