Subj : Via drivers
To   : OMAR HASHIM
From : Ibanez
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 10:49 pm

  Re: Via drivers
  By: OMAR HASHIM to IBANEZ on Sun Jul 24 2005 04:48 am

 > a task that I would want to endure someday.  One question did you
 > download the source for the packages during the stage 1 install from
 > the internet or did you have the source in the .iso file of the distro?
 > Thanks,
 > Omar

The very first step to any Gentoo install, be it a stage 1, 2, or 3, is to
download a LiveCD iso image and burn it to CD. There is more than one LiveCD,
depending on what stage you plan to do. There is a Universal LiveCD that has
everything you need to begin any stage install (but if you are going to do an
offline install or prebuilt binary installation (stage 3) then there are
additional images to download).

When I do a stage 1 install, I always do it over the internet; this simplifies
the process in that I do not have to download more than one iso image, namely
the appropriate LiveCD. For obvious reasons, I would not recommend doing this
with a dial-up connection to the internet; high speed connections are highly
recommended.

As for the process of doing a stage 1 installation, I will try to outline it
below. If you want the whole deal, you will want to read the Gentoo
Installation Handbook, which is available at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml

That is not a quick read, and you will want to study that at length before you
do your first install. Of course, feel free to ask me questions you may have.

OK, the steps (in brief) of a stage 1 install:

1. Obtain LiveCD
2. Boot system with LiveCD
3. Configure/check your network config
4. Partition your disks
5. Mount partitions and extract stage 1 tarball into the filesystem. This gives
you a minimal development environment that is statically compiled. You will be
chrooting into this environment to build the system.
6. Now the fun begins: You chroot into the environment and being compiling the
bootstrap and when you finish this chapter, you will have a complete base
system (including to replacing the inital install files from the tarball). The
only thing missing at this point is the kernel and your bootloader.
7. Configure, compile, and install the kernel.
8. Configure your system.
9. Install necessary system tools (i.e. things like cron daemon, file system
tools, networking tools, a system logger, and if using 2.6 kernel, the device
manager since gentoo now uses udev by default).
10. Configure and install lilo/grub.
11. Finalize the system (i.e. make yourself a user account and tidy things up).
12. Reboot!

There you have it! Honestly, it looks daunting at first, but its not that hard
if you have been using linux for a few years. My first gentoo install was a
stage 1 (yep, dove in head first!) and eventually ended up with a working
system. I say eventually, because I made a simple error in the kernel config,
and had to boot off the LiveCD, chroot into the system, and recompile my kernel
after fixing my config error.

Of course, now that you have a working base system that boots on its own, its
time to install X, a window manager or desktop system (or not), services etc.

- Ibanez

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