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