Gentoo 2006.0 Installation

From SIPfoundry sipx, The Open Source SIP PBX for Linux - Calivia

The following is intended as a quick reference guid for how to install Gentoo Linux 2006.0. It is written as a copy & paste template.

#Create partitions & filesystem
fdisk /dev/sda       #boot partition, swap partition, root partition
mke2fs /dev/sda1     #boot
mke2fs -j /dev/sda3  #root
mkswap /dev/sda2     #swap
swapon /dev/sda2

#Mount file systems from the install CD
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

#Install stage3 tarball and portage snapshot
cd /mnt/gentoo
links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
tar xjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2

links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
tar xjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-<date>.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

#Additional things before entering the chroot
nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
     MAKEOPTS="-j5"

mirrorselect -i -r -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf

mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

#Enter the chroot
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
env-update
source /etc/profile
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

#Update portage
emerge --sync
nano /etc/make.conf

#Emerge and compile the kernel
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime
USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
emerge genkernel
zcat /proc/config.gz > /usr/share/genkernel/x86/kernel-config-2.6
genkernel all
emerge coldplug
rc-update add coldplug boot

#Configure fstab to mount filesystems automatically at boot
nano /etc/fstab

#Set proper host & domain name, configure network with a fixed IP address
nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
nano -w /etc/conf.d/domainname
nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
rc-update add net.eth0 default
nano /etc/hosts

#Miscelaneous configuration
passwd
emerge syslog-ng
rc-update add syslog-ng default
emerge vixie-cron
rc-update add vixie-cron default

#Install & configure the boot loader
emerge grub
nano /boot/grub/grub.conf
grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
grub-install /dev/sda
rc-update add sshd default

#Exit chroot and reboot into the newly installed Gentoo system 
exit
cd
umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo
reboot