No more!

augustin · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2015 Posts: 318

I am a Gentoo virgin no more!

Today, for the first time, I booted into my Gentoo installation.

I am still using a legacy, out of date Kubuntu installation which I plan to migrate to Gentoo, once everything is properly configured and that I have migrated all data and configuration to the new system.
I have been using toying with Gentoo for about a year, but only ever using it in a chroot environment. I procrastinated configuring and installing the Linux Kernel and updating Grub. I mostly was busy with other things.
But yesterday, I pored over kernel configuration documentation, and after a few misses, I finally was able to actually reboot my computer and boot into a working Gentoo installation.

There is still a lot of things to configure. I still have much planning to do to migrate my working environment and my data to the new system, before I can use Gentoo for my daily working activities and, at long last, ditch the old distribution.
But today, I am happy. It may sound ridiculous to you, but I feel that I have made a little, but significant step forward.

I may not be a Gentoo virgin anymore, but I am not a Gentoo dandy, yet!

Randy Andy · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:27 am Post subject:

Good thing takes time, augustin.

So welcome to the next level of experience. :wink:

Go further!
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Zucca · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 11:38 am Post subject:

Welcome to the community! :)

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 12:46 pm Post subject:

augustin,

That's the hard bit done. Well done.

It gets easier going forward as when you change something and your install no longer works, you can change it back and have anther go.
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augustin · Guru Joined: 23 Feb 2015 Posts: 318

Thank you Randy, Zucca and Neddy.

It's a small step, but for me an important one.

I am eager to be using Gentoo full time!

Zucca · Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 2:45 pm Post subject:

I was lucky in the sense that Gentoo was my first Linux distro I used daily on my main PC (laptop).
Before Gentoo I briefly tried mkLinux, but I never got networking to work (repeat after me: networking working). But right after I bought the laptop my friend told me that I should install Gentoo on it, since using Gentoo would teach me a lot on Linux world. He was right about that.
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fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

@augustin: Welcome to Gentoo! Booting the system for the first time is probably the most difficult part of Gentoo installation; I'm glad you managed to do that!

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jonathan183 · Guru Joined: 13 Dec 2011 Posts: 318

On a completely new system I have started using genkernel, check the system boots and then manually configure a kernel after that. It saves a chroot from a live cd and ensures the system will boot before doing a manual kernel config. You can get a good idea from a live cd what kernel modules are needed ... but things like graphics and ATI binary blobs can still be a bit more tricky - so knowing it's only graphics helps