MIPS /dev/sda1 2.6.23.14-mips kernel-2.6.23.14-mips default/linux/mips/2008.0/generic-be/o32/ Sven Vermeulen Grant Goodyear Roy Marples Daniel Robbins Chris Houser Jerry Alexandratos Seemant Kulleen Tavis Ormandy Jason Huebel Guy Martin Pieter Van den Abeele Joe Kallar John P. Davis Pierre-Henri Jondot Eric Stockbridge Rajiv Manglani Jungmin Seo Stoyan Zhekov Jared Hudson Colin Morey Jorge Paulo Carl Anderson Jon Portnoy Zack Gilburd Jack Morgan Benny Chuang Erwin Joshua Kinard Stuart Longland Tobias Scherbaum Xavier Neys Joshua Saddler Gerald J. Normandin Jr. Donnie Berkholz Ken Nowack Lars Weiler This is the Gentoo Handbook, an effort to centralize Gentoo/Linux information. This handbook contains the installation instructions for an Internet-based installation on MIPS systems and parts about working with Gentoo and Portage. 9.1 2008-04-30 In this part you learn how to install Gentoo on your system. You can install Gentoo in many ways. In this chapter we explain how to install Gentoo using the MIPS Netboot images. To be able to install Gentoo, you must create the necessary partitions. This chapter describes how to partition a disk for future usage. Gentoo installs work through a stage3 archive. In this chapter we describe how you extract the stage3 archive and configure Portage. After installing and configuring a stage3, the eventual result is that you have a Gentoo base system at your disposal. This chapter describes how to progress to that state. The Linux kernel is the core of every distribution. This chapter explains how to configure your kernel. On both Silicon Graphics machines, and on Cobalt servers, both require the use of a bootloader to load the kernel. This section covers setting up arcboot/arcload (for SGI machines) and colo for Cobalt servers. Learn how to work with Gentoo: installing software, altering variables, changing Portage behaviour etc. "Working with Portage" provides an in-depth coverage of Portage, Gentoo's Software Management Tool. A comprehensive guide to Networking in Gentoo.