Gentoo/Gentoo Bootstrap

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Gentoo Bootstrap

This is my quick guide for bootstrapping Gentoo installation.

Startup

Boot from latest Gentoo install CD.

Networking

Make sure you have working network before start.

Create /etc/init.d/net.eth0 if not exist (recent install CDs dropped this for some reason):

ln -s net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

Time

Very important to setup correct date/time so future makes will not break.

ntpdate -u pool.ntp.org

Partitions

fdisk /dev/sda
  • Partition 1 ~50M bootable.
  • Partition 2 2*RAM_SIZE.
  • Partition 3 all the rest.

Create state3

mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda3
mkswap /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo
wget @STATE3@
wget @PORTAGE_LATEST@
tar -xpf @STAGE3@
mkdir var/gentoo
tar -C var/gentoo -xpf @PORTAGE-LATEST@
rm @STATE3@ @PORTAGE_LATEST@
cd /
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update

Initial settings

passwd
rm /etc/portage/make.profile
ln -s ../../var/gentoo/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/10.0/no-multilib \ /etc/portage/make.profile
File: /etc/portage/make.conf
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PORTDIR="/var/gentoo/portage"
DISTDIR="/var/gentoo/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/var/gentoo/packages"
USE="${USE} -gnome -qt3 -handbook"
USE="${USE} -cxx nocxx -ruby -perl -fortran -python -lua -java"
USE="${USE} -berkdb -gdbm -hal -branding"
File: /etc/portage/package.use
sys-devel/gcc cxx -nocxx

Update:

  • /etc/fstab
  • /etc/locale.gen
  • /etc/conf.d/hostname
  • /etc/localtime - copy correct file from /usr/share/zoneinfo

Update

emerge --update --deep --newuse @world
etc-update
emerge --depclean
emerge gentoolkit
revdep-rebuild
python-updater
perl-cleaner --all
emerge --depclean
revdep-rebuild

Cleanup

rm -fr /lib32/* /usr/lib32/locale

Base system

emerge app-admin/syslog-ng net-dns/openresolv app-portage/gentoolkit app-editors/vim \ net-misc/dhcpcd sys-apps/ifplugd sys-apps/iproute2 sys-apps/less sys-boot/syslinux net-misc/ntp\ sys-kernel/genkernel sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-process/vixie-cron \ app-admin/logrotate app-admin/sudo net-firewall/firehol sys-power/acpid

Kernel & Bootloader

genkernel --menuconfig --kernel-config=/etc/kernels/BASE_KERNEL_CONFIG all

See: Gentoo/Linux_Configuration_Common

extlinux --install /boot
cat /usr/share/syslinux/mbr.bin > /dev/sda
cp /usr/share/syslinux/menu.c32 /boot

Update extlinux.conf see Gentoo/Syslinux_Bootloader.

Finalize

rc-update add sshd default
rc-update add ntpd default
rc-update add syslog-ng default
rc-update add vixie-cron default
rc-update add acpid default

Close up

exit
umount /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo
reboot

Configure system

Success!

You have working Gentoo base.

Maintainer

Alon Bar-Lev

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Originally written by: Alon Bar-Lev - 2011-11-28


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