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luoleicn · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2009 Posts: 31 Location: China

Hi everybody

I want to try Gentoo, so I download Gentoo 10.0 livedvd yesterday, when I entered GNOME desktop I really don't know what to do next to install Gentoo on my harddisk. I didn't found any install programme at all. I read handbook and didn't found something to help. When I tried df -h as the handbook said, I got this:
<code>
livecd gentoo # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1013M 351M 663M 35% /
/dev/sr0 2.6G 2.6G 0 100% /mnt/cdrom
/dev/loop0 2.5G 2.5G 0 100% /mnt/livecd
udev 10M 176K 9.9M 2% /dev
cachedir 4.0M 160K 3.9M 4% /mnt/livecd/lib/splash/tmp
tmpfs 1013M 7.4M 1006M 1% /mnt/livecd/lib/firmware
tmpfs 1013M 0 1013M 0% /mnt/livecd/usr/portage
</code>
This is about livedvd not my hard disk

Any suggestion is appreciated!

sera · Retired Dev Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 1017 Location: CET

There is no installer for gentoo.

Follow the handbook closely to install gentoo to a harddrive. Here a link: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/

cach0rr0 · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:15 am Post subject:

df -h only shows stuff that's already mounted

your hard drive's partitions will not be mounted until somewhere around step 4 in the handbook

look at the output of "fdisk -l" and it will show your hard drive. Before you can go forward with the installation, you will need to partition your disks, add a file system, etc - the handbook describes this in detail. We can help you if you get stuck or confused on a certain part of the handbook, but starting out please do follow the handbook closely or else you will be lost, as will the people on here trying to help.

And just to confirm previous comments, there is indeed no installer for gentoo. This is a system you will be building from scratch, and as such an installer would not be appropriate.
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Jaglover · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:30 am Post subject:

luoleicn · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2009 Posts: 31 Location: China

Thanks all, I know Gentoo don't need installer now. But now my question is where is the stage3.tar.bz2.

I used this command

ndse2112 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 May 2007 Posts: 100

Links to the stages for your architecture are in the middle of this page:

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

d2_racing · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 5:15 pm Post subject:

Hi, you need to install your box as the handbook say so and you will have a working box

SLBMEH · Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 8:45 pm Post subject:

I've never tried to install from anything other than the minimal cd... And from what I recall from my last install I don't believe they are provided any longer. I could be completely incorrect because a dvd is much larger and i could see some logic in it being included.

Although the live dvd is relatively new and this shouldn't be a concern, your best bet is generally to download the latest tarball and snapshot from a mirror, which can be found at the link ndse2122 mentioned.

desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

SLBMEH · Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 5:25 pm Post subject:

jseymour · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 3:57 am Post subject:

I also only used the minimal install CD. Stage files were not supplied - had to navigate with the links browser and download as described in the handbook. Also needed to grab portage with links. This is a better method as the files on the cd/dvd could get old.
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desultory · Bodhisattva Joined: 04 Nov 2005 Posts: 9410

Frustie · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:30 pm Post subject:

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Dec 03, 2009 3:05 am Post subject:

In fact, you install your box with the latest one and you can safe a lot of time and pain too.

djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 810

you need to just get used to the downloading gentoo will do a lot of it.
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