Where Should I go from HERE!! <3

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Hi, I was a windows user, I just recently switched 2 gentoo because I like the idea of building my OS from the ground up, a couple things I would like 2 know for now is if my install is correct?, what i have on my computer right now 2 work with? and where should i go from here?, i eventually want a enlightenment GUI I can use 2 watch streaming movies and play steam games on. My computer is a AGP NVidea 5700 LE and a AMD Athlon XP with a gigabyte GA-7N400 Mobo.

this is what i think im doing at least....
My Gentoo Install Step-By-Step Using DHCP

Load Default kernel (gentoo) with us keyboard (41)
fdisk /dev/hda
n,p,1,ENTER,+128M,a,1 <-- bootable
n,p,2,ENTER,+2048M,t,2,82 <-- swap
n,p,3,ENTER,ENTER,p,w <-- root and write partition table
mke2fs /dev/hda1 <-- mke2fs does what???
mke2fs -j /dev/hda3 <-- -j does what???
mkswap /dev/hda2 <-- mkswap does what???
swapon /dev/hda2 <-- swapon does what???
mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo <-- mounts gentoo folder to root partition
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot <-- make a boot folder
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot <-- mounts boot folder to boot partition
date MMDDhhmmYYYY <-- set the current time
cd /mnt/gentoo <--
links gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml <-- download stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2
tar xvjpf stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2 <-- tar does what?
links gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml <-- download portage-latest.tar.bz2
tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr <-- -C does what?
nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf <-- this is my main config right?
---MAKEOPTS="-j2"
---CFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -pipe"
---CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
---CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf <-- -i -o >> where can i learn what this stuff means lol
mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf <-- -r?
cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/ <-- -L cp means COPY YAY!!
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash <-- whats bin and bash for? sowwy for all the questions <3
env-update <-- ???
source /etc/profile <-- source???
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" <-- eh not sure what this did either besides make it work. lol
emerge --sync
emerge --oneshot portage
nano -w /etc/locale.gen <-- not sure what locales do or if I even need them???
---en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
---en_US ISO-8859-1
locale-gen
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Pacific /etc/localtime
emerge gentoo-sources <-- whats gentoo-sources exactly?
emerge genkernel
zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6 <-- zcat does what?
genkernel all
nano -w /etc/fstab <-- main startup config right?
---/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
---/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
---/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
---/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
---shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname <-- whats the -w do?
nano -w /etc/issue <-- delete .\O
rc-update add net.eth0 default
emerge pcmciautils <-- do i need this even?
passwd
nano -w /etc/rc.conf
---UNICODE="yes" <-- not sure what this is?
---EDITOR="/bin/nano"
---XSESSION="Gnome"
nano -w /etc/conf.d/keymaps
---KEYMAP="us"
---SET_WINDOWKEYS="yes"
---EXTENDED_KEYMAPS="" <-- can i # this out
---DUMPKEYS_CHARSET="" <-- # this 2 right?
nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
---CLOCK="local"
---TIMEZONE="US/Pacific"
---CLOCK_OPTS="" <-- can I # anything blank right?
---CLOCK_SYSTOHC="no"
emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default
emerge app-admin/logrotate <-- do i need this? for?
emerge vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default
emerge slocate <-- trying to learn this one 2.. do i really need it to search through bash?
emerge dhcpcd
emerge grub
nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
---default 0
---timeout 30
---splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
---title
---root (hd0,0)
---kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.26-gentoo-r3 root=/dev/ram0 init=linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda3
---initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.26-gentoo-r3
---vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr:3,ywrap
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab <-- grep does what?
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/hda
exit
cd
umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
reboot
useradd -m -G audio,cdrom,usb,video,wheel -s /bin/bash username
passwd username
rm /stage3-i686-2008.0.tar.bz2*
rm /portage-latest.tar.bz2*
emerge --sync <-- updates right?
emerge gnumeric <-- do i need this? what is it
emerge gpm
nano /etc/conf.d/gpm
---MOUSE=imps2
---MOUSEDEV=/dev/input/mice
---APPEND="-l \"a-zA-z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\""
/etc/init.d/gpm start
rc-update add gpm default
emerge links
emerge gentoolkit <-- im guessing this comes in handy?


where do I go from here and what have i set up so far and what should i learn next and did i put anything i dont need or miss anything i need <3 you all, i try to understand... sometimes its just hard.. thanks guys for helping
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