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I’ve cleaned up my Gentoo repository “Aeacus” and published it again. Feel free to use it, comment upon it, edit it, or whatever. Just add this URL to your /etc/layman/layman.cfg under “overlays”:

http://dev.hades.name/file/Aeacus/layman-list.xml

If you want to install Gentoo you should read the Gentoo Handbook. However, if you (like myself) have already installed Gentoo for a couple (thousand) times, you know more or less everything that has to be done, but just need a list of things not to forget. So here it is:

• fdisk # create the partitions you want
• mkfs # create the root filesystem
• mount root /mnt/gentoo
• cd /mnt/gentoo
• wget -O- ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/releases/x86/current-stage3/stage3-i686-*.tar.bz2 | tar xj
• cd usr
• wget -O- ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2 | tar xj
• cd /mnt/gentoo
• mount -t proc proc proc
• mount --bind /dev dev
• cp -L /etc/resolv.conf etc/
• chroot . /bin/bash
• env-update; source /etc/profile
• emerge --sync
• eselect profile set default/linux/x86
• vim /etc/make.conf # setup USE, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
• vim /etc/locale.gen # setup locales
• locale-gen
• emerge gentoo-sources # configure, build and install the kernel
• vim /etc/fstab # setup the partitions, don’t forget root, swap
• vim /etc/conf.d/hostname # setup hostname
• vim /etc/hosts # add the hostname to localhost line
• passwd
• vim /etc/conf.d/clock; emerge --config timezone-data # setup timezone
• emerge syslog-ng vixie-cron mlocate
• rc-update add syslog-ng default
• rc-update add vixie-cron default
• emerge reiserfsprogs xfsprogs jfsutils e2fsprogs # or whatever set of FS you have
• emerge dhcpcd
• emerge grub
• vim /boot/grub/grub.conf # configure Grub
• grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
• grub

Now reboot and smell the ashes!