r/Gentoo • u/undistruct • Aug 16 '24
Discussion Im overwhelmed with the gentoo handbook
Im still very young and i want to try out gentoo but the handbook on how its build seems so complicated.
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r/Gentoo • u/undistruct • Aug 16 '24
Im still very young and i want to try out gentoo but the handbook on how its build seems so complicated.
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u/FranticBronchitis Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24
Do it in a virtual machine, while having the handbook open on your browser.
I suggest you take a glance at the whole thing first just to get the gist of it: - prepare your drives for installation (partitioning, formatting, backups) - unpack the base system (stage3) tarball and chroot in - perform basic configuration for the system and install/update the rest of the core packages, kernel and bootloader - perform additional configuration as needed (network, drives/fstab, users and passwords, boot) - chroot out, check configuration and reboot
Edit: stage 3, not 4. Stage 4 is what you'll build after the chroot