Gentoo Tutorial

Kenny Powers · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 1

The best part about Gentoo is how it's custom made for your hardware by you. But the installation process is tedious and confusing. What about building a tutorial that guides a new user step by step through the process? For instance, when installing the system you could have two windows side by side, the standard terminal on the one side, and a guidebook telling you what to do and why on the other. Is that something that could be done? I feel like it would really help people who are overwhelmed by all of the steps and options when coming from simpler operating systems.

Arkhelion · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:42 am Post subject:

Isn't that precisely the handbook purpose?

What you suggest would probably need an xterm or at least a framebuffer, I believe.

But what if someone try to take the setup from Arch and try to adapt to Gentoo? It's pretty straight forward, text-based, proposes config files editing, calls to package manager, etc. I don't see any blocker to use it for a Gentoo automated installation process.

Having this little tool on gentoo livecd would offer the choice between a standard installation :
- livecd-type kernel generated by genkernel
- standard options in make.conf (with newer gcc, -march=native works pretty well and standard profile USE flag are quite good too)
- etc.

and a full-handbook installation (by not launching the setup utility)

Of course, someone would have to take this and do the work, that's just an idea at this point.
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Veldrin · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 9:43 am Post subject:

Yamakuzure · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:08 pm Post subject:

Even the minimal cd has a console based browser, so you can read the online handbook in one terminal. No side-by-side, okay. If you want to have a side-by-side option, simply use the system rescue cd (gentoo based) from http://www.sysresccd.org
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pharaoh357 · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 2:25 am Post subject:

Yap, at first a thought the same thing, yes installing Gentoo is not easy but not that hard too. Installing it via the minimal cd is prety similar than installing from any other GNU/Linux distro, as long the architectures are the same (you can only chroot between distros that have the same archticture), you can use Ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux distro to installing Gentoo and use your browser to point to Gentoo Handbook

destroyedlolo · Posted: Thu May 31, 2012 8:12 am Post subject:

Hello,

I did a todo list for installing a new machine from scratch on my network which will be posted on my site (french only) a day or an other.

The problem is this kind of todo list is, ok it will provide a fully workable system but for MY OWN NEEDS, probably, not yours. My suggestion is to build you own todo list based on you own installation based on handbooks.