gentoo quickie guide

my gentoo quickie installation (estimated time 30mins)

prerequisites:
- gentoo minimal installation cd
- little linux understanding and passion
- reading comprehension on this guide

1.initial setup would be installing your lan
#net-setup eth0 [enter]

2. prepare your hard drive
#fdisk /dev/sda

3.format (that's what im good at) your hard drive
#mke2fs /dev/sda1 - for boot partition
#mkreiserfs /dev/sda3 - for root partition
#mkswap /dev/sda2 && swapon /dev/sda2 - for swap partion

4.prepare initial mounting
#mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
#mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
#mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

5.portage and stage3 snapshot
#cd /mnt/gentoo
#nohup wget ftp://gentoo.osuosl.org/pub/gentoo/releases/x86/current/stages
/stage3-i686*tar.bz2 &
#nohup wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2 &

wait for about 15 minutes for the downloading of the snapshots

#tar xjpf stage3*
#mv portage-lates.tar.bz2 usr/
#tar xjf portage*

6.chrooting
#mount -t proc proc /mnt/gentoo/proc
#cp -L /etc/resolve.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolve.conf
#chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
#env-update && source /etc/profile

7.emerging your kernel (choices are which i frequently use):
- gentoo-source - for desktop and laptop
- hardened-sources - for servers and advance users
- vserver-sources - for virtualization and servers

#emerge [yourchoice]-sources

8.configuring your kernel
#cd /usr/src/linux
#make menuconfig

configure your kernel now!

#make && make modules_install
#copy arch/i386/boot/bzimage /boot/mykernel-sources

9.configure boot loader
#emerge lilo
#vi /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda
prompt
timeout=10
default=gentoo
image=/boot/kernel
label=Gentoo
read-only
root=/dev/sda3
#lilo

10. some more refining and now your all set

#vi /etc/conf.d/net
config_eth0=("your.ip.add.ress/cidr")
routes_eth0=(" default via your.gate.way.ip")
#ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0
#rc-update -a net.eth0 default
#passwd [enter]

#exit
#umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
#umount /mnt/gentoo/proc
#umount /mnt/gentoo
#reboot

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additional installs if you just like.. (my setup)
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11.my initial installs (make sure to edit /etc/make.conf with USE="apache2 php
mysql vhost jpej fontconfig")
#emerge syslog-ng vixie-cron ntp bind-tools tcptraceroute slocate pciutils mrtg nmap
apache mysql php links mrtg

12.begin startup items
#rc-update -a syslog-ng default
#rc-update -a vixie-cron default
#rc-update -a apache default
#rc-update -a mysql default
#rc-update -a sshd default
#rc-update -a mrtg default
#rc-update -a net.etho default
#/etc/init.d/syslog-ng start
#/etc/init.d/vixie-cron start
#/etc/init.d/apache2 start
#/etc/init.d/mysql start
#/etc/init.d/mrtg start

13. repeat step 10. and rock and roll

references: hxxp://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-quickinstall.xml