Updated gentoo installation procedure

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Julien Dessaux 2021-08-11 17:50:37 +02:00
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@ -25,31 +25,15 @@ Don't forget to either run `dhcpcd` or manually set an ip and gateway to the mac
There are several options depending on wether you need soft raid, full disk encryption or a simple root device with no additional complications. It will also differ if you are using a virtual machine or a physical one.
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fdisk /dev/sda
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mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda3
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/sda2
tmux
blkdiscard /dev/nvme0n1
sgdisk -n1:0:+2M -t1:EF02 /dev/nvme0n1
sgdisk -n2:0:+512M -t2:EF00 /dev/nvme0n1
sgdisk -n3:0:0 -t3:8300 /dev/nvme0n1
mkfs.fat -F 32 -n efi-boot /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.xfs /dev/nvme0n1p3
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/gentoo
cd /mnt/gentoo
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Make sure you do not repeat the mistake I too often make by mounting something to /mnt while using the liveusb/livecd. You will lose your shell if you do this and will need to reboot!
@ -61,11 +45,10 @@ Get the stage 3 installation file from https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/. I pers
Put the archive on the server in /mnt/gentoo (you can simply wget it from there), then extract it :
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tar xpf stage3-*.tar.xz --xattrs-include='*.*' --numeric-owner
mount /dev/sda2 boot
mount -t proc none proc
mount -t sysfs none sys
mount -o rbind /dev dev
cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/
mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 boot
mount -R /proc proc
mount -R /sys sys
mount -R /dev dev
chroot .
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@ -73,11 +56,11 @@ chroot .
We prepare the local language of the system :
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env-update && source /etc/profile
echo 'LANG="en_US.utf8"' > /etc/env.d/02locale
echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
source /etc/profile
env-update && source /etc/profile
echo 'nameserver 1.1.1.1' > /etc/resolv.conf
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We set a loop device to hold the portage tree. It will be formatted with optimisation for the many small files that compose it :