What is your favorite Gentoo installation method?

Sir No · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 159 Location: Poland

I've been using Gentoo for over two years now. During that time I've used several installation methods. It seems to me that the method I was using was also changing - according to the amount of my knowledge over Gentoo's inner workings.

So I just wanted to ask you: what is your favorite method of installing Gentoo?
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kimchi_sg · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:10 am Post subject:

vanilla stage 1.
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ben_zarges · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2005 Posts: 23 Location: /dev/urandom

same here.

loki99 · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:21 pm Post subject:

Jackass! at the moment.

The easiest and fastest way to get a thoroughly tweaked system, as long as your architecture is supported!

cp_tar · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:41 pm Post subject:

Headrush · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:59 pm Post subject:

Have never used or tried anything but stage1 install by Handbook.
It's always worked with no problems on several machines.
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mark_alec · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:02 pm Post subject:

Currently it is a stage3 install as it is much faster to perform than a stage one. If I ever install again I may try Jackass if it supports my architecture.

Q-collective · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject:

codergeek42 · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:31 am Post subject:

Vanilla Stage1.

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AaronPPC · Guru Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 457 Location: Tucson, AZ

Stage 1. It's how I learned Linux. It's like learning to swim by being thrown in the middle of the lake.

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cp_tar · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 4:33 am Post subject:

joey_knisch · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 58

1) Stage 3 to just before reboot.
2) emerge ccache.
3) nano make.conf
4) emerge -e GCC
5) build kernel using new GCC
6) reboot
7) emerge links

emerge -e world
9) browse web and let stuff happen.

Just on a side note. I should really figure out fb so I can view some por... :oops:

I mean um... gentoo forums while we wait for X to build.

thomasvk · Guru Joined: 19 Mar 2005 Posts: 599

I use Stage 3 by the Handbook, just because I never bothered looking at Stage 1 and the first time I was scared Stage 1 was too difficult.

Sir No · Apprentice Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 159 Location: Poland

And I have to admit that in the end I came back to the roots as well. // pun intended

So, for my last server installation I went through stage1 install again.

It was almost like my first Gentoo installation. :wink:

Very refreshing indeed!
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Poe · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 12:25 pm Post subject:

I use Gentoo after 1,5 years, when I installed (compiled) Gentoo twice. First from s1 and second from s3 + backup. It is my favorite install method.
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Dlareh · Veteran Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 2102

I use a KNOPPIX livecd and a stage3 tarball (Jackass! where available).

I will probably try the new Kororaa next time. Not because I use KDE, but because KDE is such a pain to compile and I need to have it lying around for various reasons.

Unless you happen to know what a CHOST is, all you Stage1 people are just wasting your time with a completely inferior installation method. Take a look at Bob P's Stage1/3 thread for all your optimilazation needs.

And no, you do NOT learn more by doing a Stage1. Basically all you get to do is waste your time waiting for the bootstrap (which is highly prone to failure) to finish. Then you are at Stage2, which of course is also a pointless distinction.

EDIT: an example of such failure when progressing to/from Stage2. Many others exist and happen during the actual bootstrap; they crop up all the time.
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chunderbunny · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 2:42 pm Post subject:

Stage 3 for me, usually with a few GRP packages to get me going. My machine is reasonably powerful so optimisations do not concern me. Even on a slow machine I can have a working desktop (fluxbox, firefox etc) up and running in about 3 hours.

Taladar · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 5:01 pm Post subject:

Stage 1 manually but I usually shuffle around the order of doing things a bit compared to the handbook to minimize non-compile-times.
Usually the compilation process doesn't mind me editing the config files for the next steps in the second console.

MJOE · n00b Joined: 23 Sep 2005 Posts: 3

It's Jackass :wink:

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Wietze · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2005 Posts: 37

cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6

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cp_tar · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:10 am Post subject: