Before we start, we first list what hardware requirements you need to successfully install Gentoo on your box.
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All Installation CDs allow you to boot, set up networking, initialize your partitions and start installing Gentoo from the Internet.
The Minimal Installation CD is called
A stage3 tarball is an archive containing a minimal Gentoo environment, suitable
to continue the Gentoo installation using the instructions in this manual.
Previously, the Gentoo Handbook described the installation using one of three
stage tarballs. While Gentoo still offers stage1 and stage2 tarballs, the
official installation method uses the stage3 tarball. If you are interested in
performing a Gentoo installation using a stage1 or stage2 tarball, please read
the Gentoo FAQ on
Stage3 tarballs can be downloaded from
You have chosen to use a Gentoo Installation CD. We'll first start by downloading and burning the chosen Installation CD. We previously discussed the several available Installation CDs, but where can you find them?
You can download any of the Installation CDs from one of our
Inside that directory you'll find ISO files. Those are full CD images which you can write on a CD-R.
In case you wonder if your downloaded file is corrupted or not, you can check
its MD5 checksum and compare it with the MD5 checksum we provide (such as
Another way to check the validity of the downloaded file is to use GnuPG to
verify the cryptographic signature that we provide (the file ending with
$ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 2D182910
Now verify the signature:
(Verify the cryptographic signature) $ gpg --verify <downloaded iso.DIGESTS.asc>(Verify the checksum) $ sha1sum -c <downloaded iso.DIGESTS.asc>
To burn the downloaded ISO(s), you have to select raw-burning. How you
do this is highly program-dependent. We will discuss
When your Alpha is powered on, the first thing that gets started is the
firmware. It is loosely synonymous with the BIOS software on PC systems. There
are two types of firmware on Alpha systems: SRM (
SRM is based on the Alpha Console Subsystem specification, which provides an
operating environment for OpenVMS, Tru64 UNIX, and Linux operating systems. ARC
is based on the Advanced RISC Computing (ARC) specification, which provides
an operating environment for Windows NT. You can find a
If your Alpha system supports both SRM and ARCs (ARC, AlphaBIOS, ARCSBIOS) you
should follow
Now to boot an Alpha Installation CD, put the CD-ROM in the tray and reboot the
system. You can use SRM to boot the Installation CD. If you cannot do that, you
will have to use
(List available hardware drives) >>> show device dkb0.0.1.4.0 DKB0 TOSHIBA CDROM(...) (Substitute dkb0 with your CD-ROM drive device) >>> boot dkb0 -flags 0(This flag will use serial port ttyS0 as the default console) >>> boot dkb0 -flags 1
(Substitute sdb with your CD-ROM drive device) MILO> boot sdb:/boot/gentoolegacy initrd=/boot/gentoolegacy.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot(Using serial port ttyS0 as the default console) MILO> boot sdb:/boot/gentoolegacy initrd=/boot/gentoolegacy.igz root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs console=ttyS0 cdroot
You should have a root ("#") prompt on the current console and can also switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-F1.
Now continue with