Gentoo installed

quietguy47 · 07-03-2003, 01:10 PM

I was feeling slightly masochistic yesterday so I decided to download and install Gentoo. Well, ok, a little more than slightly masochistic. I decided I would do it from stage1.
12 hours later, all I have left to do is get a WM for it. I definately have alot more respect for Gentoo.

darin3200 · 07-03-2003, 04:03 PM

Your first gentoo install and you started from stage 1. Wow

acid_kewpie · 07-03-2003, 04:43 PM

stating from stage 1 is nothing tricky really, it's all stupidly well documented (and on a single page mind...) only reason you'd not go from 1 is really down to time or bandwidth restraints.

gentoo rocks

darin3200 · 07-03-2003, 04:45 PM

I'm going to have to try from stage 1 then. The installer page made it seem like it was only a guru thing to install from stage 1.

acid_kewpie · 07-03-2003, 04:46 PM

oh hell no, it's extremely simple, as long as you can read. it just takes longer

quietguy47 · 07-03-2003, 06:16 PM

acid_kewpie is right, it's extremely well documented. And Gentoo did a great job with the installer. The only problem I had was with a typo on my part. I put .tar.gz instead of .tar.bz2.
They even did a great job in helping with the kernel compile. Although I did manage to make a mistake there. I forgot to include devfs in the kernel. A quick recompile solved that goof.

darin3200 · 07-03-2003, 08:32 PM

you complie your own kernel then?

quietguy47 · 07-03-2003, 09:01 PM

you compile everything, even the gnu c compiler.

acid_kewpie · 07-04-2003, 05:57 AM

you do need to compile the kernel for stage one, but there are a number of very well preconfigured kernel setups available, a gaming version, a desktop version, and xfs version etc... so it's not as scary as going to kernel.org and downloading that unconfigured... i made a few moderate tweals, other than that though.

(btw. always add on the "config" module, this will add /proc/config which you can cat at any time to get the axact config settings the kernel was built with, saves keeping variout .config files lying around for future recompiles etc...)

Tesl · 07-04-2003, 01:12 PM

i installed gentoo yesterday as well as it happens

although i installed it from stage 3

it was a fairly easy install, took a fairly long time but i got there in the end

i assume now its just a case of using portage to emerge all the things that id like, all the WM then the relevant programs?

i really like the ideas behind Gentoo, and i feel that once i master how it works, il learn more about Linux than the other distro's iv used, as well as being able to run probably one of the best distributions

EDIT - networking fine now