B0b enlightened us with:
> My problem is this, the manual doesn't really cover how to do it
> without booting from a live CD. I tried doing the first few steps, but
> quickly ran into problems in that I don't have stuff like emerge and
> env-update installed.

Just follow it to the letter, except where you can't do something.
Running 'mirrorselect' won't work from a non-gentoo system, but you'll
be able to install without. Once you chroot to /mnt/gentoo, it won't
make any difference.

> I couldn't find any packages for it, but since installing from a
> distro is listed as an option, I assume there's a way.

I haven't done it any other way.

Sybren
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The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a
capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the
safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?