Overview

Notes

Installation Guide

1. Get Another System * Make sure you have another system (laptop or desktop) next to you with access to the 'net.
2. USB Stick * Put the following files on a USB stick:
3. Download Installation Media * At the time of writing the Gentoo 2008.0 install CD is only 'beta1' so we've opted to use the amd64 2007.0 minimal install CD image. Download from a gentoo mirror
4. Burn Installation Media onto CD / DVD * Use whatever software you're comfortable with to burn the image. I used cdrecord in this instance.
5. Boot System with Installation Media * Insert the installation CD/DVD and boot the system.
6. Partition Disks * fdisk; (n -> p -> 1/2/3; t -> 1 -> 82; a -> 2; p ; w * sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb
7. Setup RAID * modprobe raid1 * cd /dev && MAKEDEV md * mdadm --create --verbose --assume-clean /dev/md1 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1
8. Create FileSystems * mkswap /dev/md1 * mkreiserfs /dev/md2 * mkreiserfs /dev/md3
9. Mount and begin installation * swapon /dev/md1 * mount /dev/md2 /mnt/gentoo *