On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] > > I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda.
Here is my screen shot :) Sat May 14 12:52 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # Again, it uses bash commands, so I would have to show you what an x terminal or a virtual terminal looks like with some typing in it. Perhaps these will help: Directory of Linux Bash Commands: http://www.onlamp.com/linux/cmd/ Gentoo install instructions: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml > "The Gentoo Installation CDs are bootable CDs which contain a > self-sustained Gentoo environment. They allow you to boot Linux from > the CD. During the boot process your hardware is detected and the > appropriate drivers are loaded. They are maintained by Gentoo > developers." -the handbook, 2c > > I'm somewhat familiar with knoppix. when the handbook says > "self-sustained" do they mean live, like knoppix? Yes, they are what I call "live" CDs, since they both run from CD and RAM. The only difference is, with Knoppix, you can install Gentoo (or Debian SID) from an x environment. With the Gentoo install, you are limited to 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. In Knoppix, you have 3 spare virtual terminals and one x session in which you can open as many x terminals as you wish. I'm not sure about the Gentoo install CD (I built mine either under a running Fedora Core 1 or using Knoppix. I pre-partitioned my disk first with the fdisk utility, then I installed WindowsXP, then my other distros (I quad boot Windows XP, Fedora Cores 1 and 3, and Debian Sid) and used grub for the bootloader. Here is how I started, and this all takes root privileges: # Make mountpoints and format partitions. mkdir /mnt/gentoo mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot mkswap /dev/hdb2 swapon mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr mkreiserfs /dev/hdb5 mount /dev/hdb5 /mnt/gentoo/usr mkdir /mnt/gentoo/opt mkreiserfs /dev/hdb6 mount /dev/hdb6 /mnt/gentoo/opt mkdir /mnt/gentoo/var mkreiserfs /dev/hdb7 mount /dev/hdb7 /mnt/gentoo/var mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/home mkdir /mnt/gentoo/pub mount /dev/hdb11 /mnt/gentoo/pub cd /mnt/gentoo tar -xvjpf /pub/downloads/tars/gentoo/stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2 mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash env-update source /etc/profile # First emerges emerge system emerge app-portage/gentoolkit emerge app-portage/esearch eupdatedb Then, emerge (i.e download, compile and install, a Gentoo bash command most other distros lack) the other stuff you want. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
