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I tried installing this a while back, but I ran into a few problems with it and gave up in frustration. I'm ready to give it another shot, but I'm looking for an install guide for it. I know theres one on the Gentoo website, but I'm looking for a short, straight to the point, and no bull**** install guide. I can't be bothered printing off the official guide, and I won't have another computer in the house to use while I'm installing. Any help would be appreciated, and my sincerest apologies if this has been asked and answered before.

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I tried installing this a while back, but I ran into a few problems with it and gave up in frustration. I'm ready to give it another shot, but I'm looking for an install guide for it. I know theres one on the Gentoo website, but I'm looking for a short, straight to the point, and no bull**** install guide. I can't be bothered printing off the official guide, and I won't have another computer in the house to use while I'm installing. Any help would be appreciated, and my sincerest apologies if this has been asked and answered before.

Here you go:

http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/35

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Link is broken :(

Not for me. Try it again.

It isn't exactly what you asked for but this sounds like the only sane way to get Gentoo up and running (in my books).

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It keeps timing out on me.

I dunno, the site seems fine for me. It's a graphical installer for Gentoo.

Here is the torrent to download:

http://vidalinux.net/files/anaconda-gentoo...1.1.iso.torrent

Anaconda Gentoo-1.1 beta1 for AMDXP

Submitted by carlitos on Monday, April 5, 2004 - 03:54

We are pleased to announce a new beta release of the anaconda-gentoo installer for the AMDXP architecture, this new release have the following features:

Gnome-2.6

Evolution-1.4.5

Openoffice-ximian-1.1

Gimp-2.0

and other aplications that Gnome-2.6 have, please feel free to sent us comments, suggestions and things you like us to add on the installer.

http://gentoo.vidalinux.com/?q=node/view/41

The Anaconda Gentoo Installer uses the RPM package manager to install the Stage3, Kernel and Portage. For other things like: vixie-cron, sysklogd, kudzu and XFREE they use the emerge command.

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There's a copy of the install guide on the CD. I'm not sure how much I'd trust that anaconda installer, something about the rpm package manager doesn't seem right to install Gentoo :pinch:

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Make sure you download the GRP CD if you aren't going to have another computer in the house, otherwise you'll be stuck browsing the web in Lynx for a few hours ;)

It's also possible to install Gentoo with Knoppix or other LiveCDs, with that you still get to use all the LiveCD goodies while Gentoo is compiling :)

But that complicates things a little.

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look on the www.gentoo.org website for the intall instructions through knoppix. Then you can use your computer while installing gentoo. The best instructions are on www.gentoo.org, if you feel that they maybe to long, then you should really think about what you are doing. Those instructions on the site will get you through it, and there is very little useless stuff added (unless you count the few things which won't apply to your architecture.

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Thanks for the help guys.

@kemical, I'll give this a try when I get home tonight.

For the record, I have read over the gentoo install guide before, and I completely understood it. I just didn't want to have to print off that guide. I have a lot of experience in the command line, so I should be okay. I'll tell you how it goes.

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Thanks for the help guys.

@kemical, I'll give this a try when I get home tonight.

For the record, I have read over the gentoo install guide before, and I completely understood it. I just didn't want to have to print off that guide. I have a lot of experience in the command line, so I should be okay. I'll tell you how it goes.

If you don't want to print it off .... use links on the second terminal to reference the docs while you're compiling :D

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If you don't want to print it off .... use links on the second terminal to reference the docs while you're compiling :D

yea thast what i did ;-) but that osnews guide is pretty small and straight forward i havent used it myself so let me know how it works out for you

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The guide was no good. The exact same thing that happened before happened this time. I correctly setup the networking and the internet at the beginning, and half-way through it refused to connect to the internet, even though it said it was connected.

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