Newbie Install

tommytomato · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2025 Posts: 2

Hi all

1st wish to say since I've been playing with the GUI live usb side of Gentoo seems to be very smooth and straight to the point with its apps

I gave it a shot to try install directly to a HDD/SSD but I came up with a few errors,

pietinger · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 3:49 am Post subject:

tommytomato,

Welcome to Gentoo Forums!

The first yt-video you have linked is outdated (using "parted"). The 2nd uses "fdisk",the 3rd one is very up-to-date (using "cfdisk").

I recommend to use all these videos only as an inspiration and proceed the installation with our AMD64 Handbook (default is here using "fdisk").

If you are unsure about some steps you may compare it with this Quick Installation:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/Draft/Quick_Installation_OpenRC_for_an_UEFI_System
(yes, personally I am using also "parted" because IMHO it is the quickest and easiest)

Yes, you really should install the gentoo-kernel-bin ... and ... read before: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pietinger/New_at_Gentoo
... especially my suggestion:

tommytomato · n00b Joined: 31 Jan 2025 Posts: 2

Thanks for that link

I will look into it, going to take the PC home and work on it

but while I was using the GUI desktop thought I would get a few screen rips so I know what I have

https://ibb.co/7NyrfBDp

https://ibb.co/RTkKq8rb

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2025 12:13 pm Post subject:

tommytomato,

Welcome to Gentoo.

The details of a Gentoo install changes from time to time. In general, videos are out of date/misleading/incorrect as soon as they are posted.
Large language model AI, like ChatGPT are equally wrong for the same reason. They are trained on out of date data.

When you install, use the Gentoo handbook.
When something goes wrong tell us,

1. What you did. Tell us the command exactly, so we can try to reproduce the problem.
2. What actually happened
3. What you expected to happen
4. Any error message. Verbatim please.

You can make a forums post or ask in #gentoo on Libera IRC.
We will all want the same information to be able to help.
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Regards,

NeddySeagoon

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those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail.