will LiveCD installer do everything for me? [solved]

h2sammo · Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 1025 Location: Michigan

i read the installation handbook and it is very confusing to me if all those steps have to be performed if i run the installer from LiveCD.

i actually installed Gentoo with the installer but it seems a lot of things are missing. i had selected all the packages and available options to load at install but i only have a terminal when i boot from HDD. also my NICs werent discovered but i fixed that. i had to emerge gentoo-sources.

i remember selecting all these things on my installation...why arent they taking effect.

help pls

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

The installer is broken and will (I'm pretty sure) be broken for the next two decades. Install by using the handbook and if needed, ask specific questions, that'll work for sure.

minor_prophets · Apprentice Joined: 07 Oct 2007 Posts: 281

ditto that response.

I have never successfully used the GUI installer from 2004.0 up. Besides, tell me the last time you learned anything about your systems internals by running a GUI installer? That's the real benefit of running the installation from terminal.

Don't be afraid of the command line. Starting to get familiar with it during the installation will give you a huge sense of accomplishment and boost your confidence in the bedroom.

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:13 am Post subject:

In fact, use the command line installation, it's the only way to install Gentoo

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

++ to manual install

It's really not that hard. Gentoo was my first distro and I managed to install it by carefully reading the handbook and using some brains.
The only thing that was a bit tricky was making the kernel.
I dunno if genkernel generates a really good one.
If you run into problems with the configuration of your kernel just ask. There's loads of people around who're willing to help.
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d2_racing · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:28 pm Post subject:

In fact, after your first installation of Gentoo, you will realize that you have learned a lot of new stuff about Linux in general.

cwr · Veteran Joined: 17 Dec 2005 Posts: 1969

Genkernel is basically a fancy editor for .config, so it's as good or bad as the
config setup. I find it pretty straightforward to use, though I have a small
script that calls it with the standard arguments which I can never remember.

Will

h2sammo · Veteran Joined: 11 Mar 2009 Posts: 1025 Location: Michigan

i have a problem with selecting modules for autoloading. i opened a thread here please help.

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5557562.html#5557562