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#1 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

Hi,
I' m gentoo newbie and just want to install it with less
steps as possible.
A friend had downloaded and made for me amd-xp
gentoo optimizaded cd (1 e 2) for my system, and I made
boot, gentoo, and swap partitions.
On faq I have seen somethings about +GRP instalation but I'm confused.
Can any of you give me the right way?

Thanks in advince for any help

Evaristo

#2 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

evaristo wrote:

> Hi,
> I' m gentoo newbie and just want to install it with less
> steps as possible.
> A friend had downloaded and made for me amd-xp
> gentoo optimizaded cd (1 e 2) for my system, and I made
> boot, gentoo, and swap partitions.
> On faq I have seen somethings about +GRP instalation but I'm
> confused. Can any of you give me the right way?
>
> Thanks in advince for any help
>
> Evaristo

Hi

There were people who were absolute linux-newbies installing
gentoo with no problems. I propose you get the installation
instructions [1] and look for a (stage3) live cd [2]. It's easier
than you think

Of course you can also use GRP packages (iirc
on the cd mentioned under [2]), which are precompiled for you,
but you need to set exactly the same USE flags as the packager
did (I have seen this problem on a friend's PC). Maybe you're
better off doing all from source.. this doesn't hurt, since you
have an athlon xp ;D

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml
[2] http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions
/gentoo/releases/x86/1.4/livecd/athlon-xp/

Greets & HTH

Dave

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Linux user #225040| |x|puts x;(x*2).step(n,x){|j|a.delete j}}"
____________________|_____________________________ |
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#3 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

Thanks to any of you,
the link for install faq isn't clear, which are the right steps
for stage 3 installation with no modem and just live cds?

Thanks again

Evaristo

#4 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

On Sat, 06 Sep 2003 01:20:15 +0200, evaristo wrote:

> Thanks to any of you,
> the link for install faq isn't clear, which are the right steps
> for stage 3 installation with no modem and just live cds?
>
> Thanks again
>
> Evaristo
If you cannot read then Gentoo is definitely not for you.

#5 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

evaristo wrote:

> Thanks to any of you,
> the link for install faq isn't clear, which are the right steps
> for stage 3 installation with no modem and just live cds?

Get all needed files from another source and copy them to
/usr/portage/distfiles.

Dave

--
Dave "tPassive" Vogt| ruby -e "n=gets.to_i;a=(2..n).to_a;a.each{
Linux user #225040| |x|puts x;(x*2).step(n,x){|j|a.delete j}}"
____________________|_____________________________ |
PGP Key: http://control-alt-del.ch/public_key.asc \____________/

#6 (**permalink**) 02-21-2008, 05:09 AM

evaristo wrote:

> Thanks to any of you,
> the link for install faq isn't clear, which are the right steps
> for stage 3 installation with no modem and just live cds?
>
> Thanks again
>
> Evaristo
>
>
You'll need to edit your /etc/make.conf and configure it for your hardware.
Next try to download and burn either to cd or a spare hd the files you want
to install. Once you've got all of them (approx 9gigs for everything) then
you just point things to the cd/hd where your files are located and begin
building what you need.

I would only download the tree for you hardware. EG: x86 for intel pc's or
sparc if using a Sun Sparc. Should keep things a bit smaller and provides
you with all the files needed for doing a stage 1 build if you've got the
room.
Registered Linux User # 286635

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