Today i have just installed a new gentoo system.
Installing Gentoo
From http://www.gentoo.org i grabbed the liveCD installer
While booting my new machine from the livecd Xorg failed but no problems i just used the command line installer.
The command line installer does not force you to enter each command yourself (but you can if you like) it is just a wizzard that does not use Xorg.
I just pressed next…next…next…next (the defaults will do)
I could now reboot into my shiny new gentoo.
First Boot
On first boot the first problem was that i had not installed a dhcp client so i had no network card address
You can get around this by following the steps in my previous post.
Once my network card is on i first wanted to get a dhcp client
emerge dhcpcd
I could now run
dhcpcd eth0
This got an IP address from my router
The other thing to set before we do some updates is to add some USE flags to /etc/make.conf
USE=”a52 aac aalib accessibility dns administrator alsa apm arts avi libaudiofile bash-completion bluetooth bzip2 cddb cdr cups curl dbus divx dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif expat ffmpeg flac foomaticdb ftp gdmdb gif gpm gtk gtk2 gnome hal ipod java javascript jpeg kde lame libg++ libwww libcaca libwww win32codecs mad mikmod motif lirc mp3 mjpeg mpeg mplayer mysql mythtv nas nptl ncurses nls ogg opengl oss png pdf qt qt3 qt4 quicktime real samba sdl spell ssl taglib theora tiff truetype videos cdparanoia quicktime qt3support tqt4 real vcd vidix win32codecs vim-syntax unicode udev vorbis workbench X xinerama xml xscreensaver xv xvid xine xmms xv zlib”
This is mine for my desktop PCUpdating Gentoo
Now we have an internet connection i now needed to update my system
But first gentoo needs to know what packages are available. Run
emerge –sync
To sync your computer with the gentoo update servers
Now to do a full update run
emerge -uvDN world
I also have a post describing what that command does
You should now run a
revdep-rebuild
To make sure that no packages are pointing to old versions of other application
Install Some Important Packages& build new kernel
emerge gentoolkit openssh genkernel eselect gentoo-sources
run
eselect kernel list
To list the available kernels & take note of the number in the box. eg [3]
eselect kernel set 3
Where 3 is the number from the box
Now you have your kernel selected you can run
genkernel –install –menuconfig all
To run menuconfig so you can set your options & install your kernel
This will put your new kernel & initramfs in /boot
Now open /boot/grub/menu.lst and add something like this depending on your kernel version
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.23-gentoo-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.23-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.23-gentoo-r6
You can now reboot into your new up to date gentoo operating system
interesting post thx
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