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[SkZ]

Hi.. Ok I have followed all the right steps so far to install Gentoo.. I have went to the linux website to try and follow the instillation guide/steps. But it dosn't give me a good enough discription on how to install.. I have the .ISO file burnd on a cd.. But what exactly is my next step. How do I actually install it.. When I put in the Cd and drag to my destop, What do I do next... I'm running off of XP right now.. And I would also like to ask. Will there be any "side affects" to my cpu if I install Linux gentoo over XP or... I'm a beginner with all this, but I would greatly appreciate it if I can get a little guidence.. I might have some of the steps in the wrong order, or even incorrect... Lol



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[Beastmasta]

Try looking Here
http://www.aviransplace.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=391

EDIT: Also, if your new i would advise you to use one of the linux reccomended at that link.

[PurpleSkunk]

In order to install Linux, you need to boot onto your CD, you can't install Linux over Windows XP, that why I told you by PM that you should have another hard disk drive to install Linux on.

[Gerard22]

The first thing I needed to do when installing Gentoo was to prepare the network connection. It just so happens that I am too lazy to find an ethernet cord and there wasn’t any apparent support yet for my Intel ProWireless card, so I skipped the internet connection. The Universal LiveCD contains stage3 (Gentoo prepares ’stages’ which are tarballs of whole systems, there are three stages and they each have a unique role) so I don’t need the network anyway. At least, for all I know I don’t.
set up partitions
The next part of installing Gentoo was preparing partitions for it. I’ve got a laptop which means I don’t have the luxury of installing a test on /dev/hdb (that’s linux talk for ’second hard drive’), so I had to make do with my current partition table. Luckily, besides my Windows XP partition, FAT32 storage partition, Suse 9.2 installation and EXT3 storage partition I also had a previous linux partition that I could use. The Gentoo install manual suggested I make partitions in this way:

50MB partition for /boot
500MB partition for swap
use the rest for /
Because of the nature of the installation, these would all be mounted in /mnt/gentoo first, and then that whole folder would become / later on.

I had been given only in the installer was six consoles (accessed via ALT+1 - ALT+6) and fdisk, so I didn’t seem to have the means to make a boot partition of 50MB. Well, I did, but with my lack of experience with fdisk there’s a decent chance that I would have cleverly removed all of my data from the other partitions. To avoid that, I decided to ignore the boot partition and to proceed as if I had followed the directions perfectly.

So what I had was this:

3GB partition for WinXP
8GB partition for Gentoo root
9GB partition for Suse 9.2
0.6GB partition for SWAP
8GB partition for EXT2 storage
35GB partition for FAT32 storage
install stage3 tarball
Still in the LiveCD console environment, I made the folder /mnt/gentoo and I unpacked a stage3 pentium4 tarball into it [tar xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/state3-pentium4-2004.3.tar.bz2]. I started typing this post in console3 while it unpacked in console 4 (way to be productive, no?)

install Portage
The next step was installing Portage. Portage is Gentoo’s mothership app. Portage is to Gentoo what Jesus is to Christians - it makes things work. A Gentoo system that doesn’t have Portage has it’s own name: the linux kernel. So, knowing how important it was that I didn’t screw this part up, I tried installing Portage.