Talk:HOWTO Install Gentoo - The Gentoo Developers Method with NPTL and 2.6 from Stage1

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[edit] Split / Merge / Move

This is a great guide with a lot of great material, however, it would probably be better suited were it broken up into multiple sections for readability and also had certain things removed and placed in more coherent places.

For example:

  • assimilate the installation with the other big installation guides - the three cover much of the same information
    • (part my fault for creating the third rather than modifying one of the two)
  • the tip about Gnome animated cursors could move over to the Beautifying Gnome guide.
  • the WM stuff should move to the WM Index

NO, this is my fav install doc for g2. Conor --68.98.22.70 04:38, 23 August 2005 (GMT)

No change needed. --Dirk R. Gently 15:48, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] First Note

Hello all :)

I've spent quite a bit of time (easily over 6hrs) running off coffee and rebull putting this together initially by taking stuff off ali3n's forum article and then adding my alot from my own experience in setting up gentoo (for the first time from source) and then adding to it as seen fit. Right now ali3n's is also maintaining this which is a great thing cause he is the 'creator' of what I like to call the 'one like wonder'...

Please post back with comments and feel free to constructively contribute to this ultimate handbook for gentoo!!

--bsodmike

[edit] Setting hostname and domainname

The baselayout for ~x86 has changed:

/etc/hostname      -> /etc/conf.d/hostname
/etc/dnsdomainname -> /etc/conf.d/domainname

Worth to mention for a bleading edge instalation ;-)


[edit] libperl not installed

During the perl build portion of emerge libperl, the build may fail because libperl isn't installed. I solved this problem by doing 

emerge --nodeps libperl

Then I went back and did emerge libperl ; emerge libperl ... and all appeared well.

[edit] emerge gcc-config && emerge linux-headers

Are these necessary? I think the bootstrap script handles this.

[edit] Problem with emerging the base system 

emerge slocateenv-update && source /etc/profile && emerge --oneshot --nodeps gcc-config && USE="-* build bootstrap" emerge linux-headers && \
cd /usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh && emerge libperl ; emerge libperl && emerge --emptytree system && \
emerge syslog-ng xinetd grub hotplug coldplug vixie-cron reiserfsprogs reiser4progs sysfsutils udev dhcpcd && \
emerge --nodeps acpid ntp && rc-update add syslog-ng default && rc-update add net.eth0 default && rc-update add vixie-cron default && \
rc-update add xinetd default && rc-update add sshd default && rc-update add hotplug default && rc-update add coldplug default && \
rc-update add acpid default

I think the part where it cd's into the bootstrap is wrong. It should be just 

/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh

The correct version should be 

env-update && source /etc/profile && emerge --oneshot --nodeps gcc-config && USE="-* build bootstrap" emerge linux-headers && \
/usr/portage/scripts/bootstrap.sh && emerge libperl ; emerge libperl && emerge --emptytree system && \
emerge syslog-ng xinetd grub hotplug coldplug vixie-cron reiserfsprogs reiser4progs sysfsutils udev dhcpcd && \
emerge --nodeps acpid ntp && rc-update add syslog-ng default && rc-update add net.eth0 default && rc-update add vixie-cron default && \
rc-update add xinetd default && rc-update add sshd default && rc-update add hotplug default && rc-update add coldplug default && \
rc-update add acpid default

[edit] UTF-8

A mention of UTF-8 would be nice.

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