Ultimate guide to installing Gentoo Linux for new users

In this "Lengthy" video, I install Gentoo Linux (Yes again) and try and explain the process a little better than I did when I made it 8 months ago. I realized in that video (the old one) I didn`t explain everything correctly and I also didn`t cover as much as I possible could have, so hopefully in this more "guided" version, new users who may want to install Gentoo can have a easier time. Feel free to leave me a comment down below and i`ll get back to you. I did add some chapters.

00:00 - Intro
03:39 - Grabbing ISO
08:00 - Booting ISO
18:00 - Partition Stuff
24:42 - Filesystem
29:22 - Stage 3
38:00 - Unpacking Stage 3
1:09:00 - ACCEPT_LICENSE
1:14:00 - KERNEL
1:25:00 - FSTAB
1:36:00 - System Tools
1:42:00 - GRUB
1:55:00 - System is installed
2:00:00 - Setting up Xorg

[melanie]

Successfully installed gentoo as my first Linux distro with this guide. Very helpful!

[Trudo-jvwk]

Chris, so grateful for this video! I've failed previously with just the handbook (and some other guides) but this time it was fun, pain-free and full success 🙂 I admire the fact that you've put so much effort to share your knowledge and help newbies like me. Have you perhaps considered anything like a "buy me a coffee" thing, because honestly - I'd gladly contribute to your invaluable channel. You're a hero! 💥

[nicklutz]

Rlly great video! Explaining “why” and elaborating on certain parts that the handbook kinda glossed over was super helpful to get a stronger grasp on installing lol.

The intentional mistake with the grub use flags is a shining example of what I said above. Really appreciate the effort!

[kaworu]

Thank you very much for the video. I had been devouring the gentoo handbook for months and your video came at the right time for me to explore the system. Eternally grateful for your excellent work

[atharvasurwase]

Great vid installed it on my own it took me 3-4 days but guys go through his tut if it shows no operating system present plz tweak ur bios in my case i have to change the secure boot option from uefi windows to other os which worked for me took me like 5 tries, watched this tut for 3 times learned a lot works in 2024 too!!
kudos chris for indept guides im subscribed, wish to see more!!!

[laugenbrezel]

Thank you so much for this guide. I have had a lot of problems to follow the handbook on my own. But you explained it so well. Thank you :) Greetings from Germany

[davidluza]

I completely installed gentoo on HP Compaq 8200 Elite CMT PC on openrc with printer, graphics even Lutris support. I am amazed how fast the system is. Thank you for your guide.

[albiemer]

kudos... this video is much better than others i search before...

[Jacobyz]

Thank you for doing this for free. I couldn't have done it without you.

[failsafe]

Thanks for the tutorial! You made installing Gentoo really easy. Hopefully this will end my distro hopping lol

[Maxdog]

I am very new to Linux (I’ve been watching videos on it for ~4 days and have only installed Kali, Ubuntu, and wanjaro on a VM to try out some distros) Just wanted to thank you for the explanations, I learned a lot!

[l]

Hey man. Awesome video. Just finished watching the whole video. I have expected a login manager at the end, but thanx to you, I'll figure out myself.
Will try this on a vm asap. 🙌❤️

[СергейСергей-дгэ]

О-о, VJLink стал записывать видео про линукс, круто.

Кстати, благодарю за подробный гайд.

[memzowicz]

I only ran into issue that I was getting read only filesystem, just had to remount into root partition and it fixed. Amazing tutorial 👍

[AdrianoWotan]

Great vídeo, Chris!
It would be nice a specific video explaining how to upgrade the kernel-bin on Gentoo.

[TheAzmodeuz]

Excellent video! Congratulations and thank you for making your installation available. I managed to do the procedures correctly. When possible, make a video explaining the use of a separate Home on another HD.

[melancholy-engineering]

Thanks for your video! It is really well covered!
I tried to install with OpenRC as you did and it was succesfull :) Now I want do it again but with systemd and gnome desktop. I hope I will not fail XD

[abdullahalfahad]

First Gentoo install video which i watched fully
But i need more time to have the guts(courage) to install gentoo on my bare metal.

[srupidcat]

Thank you so much for the video dude helped me out a lot. I've got to check out your other videos.

[Nikolai]

One not often mentioned methods of making a bootable USB from an ISO is to just use the `cp` command and that's something that comes with any GNU system.

It's simpler than using dd as well, its a case of running cp and passing through the file followed by the destination which is and then run the `sync` command once it has done.
Also the device should not be mounted and you run those commands as root / sudo.