Installation
This is a quick & dirty howto for installing the new livecd version aka 2009_beta_*
Setup your disk
Determine your disk and partition it through fdisk
Format the root partition as you'd like it, and mount it on /mnt/gentoo
Copy the files
Copy all dirs from /mnt/livecd to /mnt/gentoo
Copy /etc /root to /mnt/gentoo
# \cp -avf /mnt/livecd/* /etc /root /mnt/gentoo
Copy /usr/portage to /mnt/gentoo/usr
# \cp -avf /usr/portage /mnt/gentoo/usr
Configure your "installation"
Mount proc and dev on /mnt/gentoo
# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc # mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
Chroot on /mnt/gentoo
# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash # env-update >> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache... # source /etc/profile # export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
Configure your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/conf.d/*
Remove autoconfig from default runlevel
# rc-update del autoconfig default
Add keymaps to default
# rc-update add keymaps default
And edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps
# mv /etc/inittab.old /etc/inittab # mv /etc/init.d/halt.sh.orig /etc/init.d/halt.sh # passwd root
Change your password
Setup bootloader
Setup grub by editing it's configuration file. If your hdd is /dev/sda it would look like this:
# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab # grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
Finish installation
Exit from chroot, umount /mnt/gentoo/*
# exit # umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
Reboot Enjoy