Gentoo: A ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕗𝕪 Install Guide
Channel: DenshiVideo
Date: 2021-10-02

A calm, no-nonsense guide on how to install a minimal Gentoo system.

Gentoo AMD64 Handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64
Gentoo Mirrors Page: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/
Kernel Compilation Video: https://youtu.be/APQY0wUbBow?t=55
Genfstab Script: https://github.com/glacion/genfstab

Piano music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hRV-Nq1Q0

0:00 Introduction
0:06 Why I'm using Linux Mint
0:37 Switching to root
0:54 Partitioning the disks
1:34 Formatting the partitions
2:03 Making /mnt/gentoo
2:23 Mounting the partitions
2:59 Installing a stage tarball
3:06 Checking the date
3:38 Picking a tarball
4:11 Downloading the tarball
4:27 Extracting the tarball
4:46 Configuring compile options
5:09 Setting MAKEOPTS
6:10 Selecting mirrors
6:51 Copying DNS info
7:10 Mounting Gentoo
7:33 Fixing /dev/shm
8:05 Chrooting into Gentoo
8:35 Running emerge-webrsync
8:51 Reading news items with eselect
9:21 Choosing a profile
10:29 What do profiles actually do?
10:54 What are USE flags?
11:47 How to configure USE flags
13:05 Why you should change USE flags
13:25 Updating the world set
14:11 Setting ACCEPT_LICENSE
15:01 Timezone
15:29 Locale
16:18 Kernel configuration
16:48 Sike! We're installing a binary!
16:53 Picking an Installkernel
17:18 Installing the binary kernel
17:43 Note on kernel modules
17:56 Note on linux-firmware
18:06 Generating the fstab
18:28 Switching back to the mint user
18:46 Running genfstab
19:07 Editing the fstab
19:38 Note on networking
19:47 Hostname
20:08 Hosts file
20:19 Root password
20:45 Note on init/keymap config
20:55 Installing additional packages
21:34 Bootloader (GRUB)
22:29 Configuring sudo
22:53 Adding a user
23:22 Setting the user password
23:33 Deleting the stage archive
23:43 Time to reboot!
24:02 First boot into Gentoo
24:18 Increasing font size
24:24 Screenfetch for the memes
24:32 Note on Xorg
25:14 Troubleshooting tips
25:23 Outro

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