Installing Gentoo Linux 2024 Edition

Just like all my previous Gentoo Linux install videos, I take you from zero to hero in installing Gentoo. I try and show you and talk about everything that we need to do in order to get a working Gentoo install up and running. This will be two part sequel. In this first video I just show you how to get a working Gentoo install and the steps that I would personally take in order to get that done, in the second video I will show you how to get a working desktop environment or a window manager of your choice. As always, feel free to leave me a comment down below if you guys have any questions.

00:00 - Intro
02:08 - grabbing iso
06:12 - booting into iso
06:14 - setting date and time
09:10 - prepare hard disk
11:04 - file systems
18:55 - downloading stage 3 tar-ball
25:15 - chroot in using arch-chroot
30:16 - eselect news
31:43 - select profile
35:35 - setting up binhost
44:55 - setting up license
52:37 - installing kernel
01:01:17 - setting up fstab
01:12:50 - system logger
01:17:13 - filesystem tools
01:19:23 - grub install
01:27:15 - rebooting into new gentoo system
01:27:45 - outtro

[nerogaming]

Nice, i remember installing gentoo for the first time with the 2023 tutorial

[intermarer]

It took me way too long to understand he was trying to say "LIVE gui" and not "lab gui" 😆
Thanks for the video! Planning to follow it tomorrow!

[pc-fcdu]

Thank you for your install video.

I went throught this three times and failed each time at the last step, I could not manage to get the efi stuff to install. Each of those times i restarted the whole virtualbox install, but the third time I realized I had everything correct up to the last bit and so just backtracked some to redo steps. What I am sure is likely to have thwarted me is a simple tickbox in virtualbox under system, "Enable EFI (special OSes only)" that I must have believed was only for Windows. VirtualBox itself is unclear with that label, more OSes can or do use efi now than once was true. I ticked to enable it and the efi install succeeded and I can now finally boot my gentoo virtual machine.

[PeIeus]

just installed using this, you are a God and got a new subscriber. Thank you mate.

[KnownUnknown]

Keep going bro, i was thinking about distro hopping to gentoo after using arch for a long time.

[prxject]

Thank you for your help! actually an amazing video man

[gorauma]

Ooh last time I installed Gentoo was in the middle noughties. Nice to see it still going strong.

[RicardoGarciso]

Hi LinuxTechGeek
Thanks for your Video
Have been unable to get gentoo installed as I got stuck after installing the firmware (generate fstab...)
So I got it installed with another video without any problem
Sorry to be unable to explain my unability better as I'm a newbie
Hope what I say can help another one with same problem
In any case I congratulate you for all the work you've done and congratulate everyone who has succeeded at this
😀🤗

[RicardoGarciso]

Tip-Offs from a Newbie to newcomers
Hi Chris & Everyone,
Just succeeded installing the system following the Video (after two days - more than 16 hours... - and more than 2 broken virtual machines)
I installed in VM Manager (Qemu) / In a few days I'll get your videos to install xorg & desktops
I'm very happy to it as my goal is to install gentoo bare-metal in my Laptop...
Tip = make a new try following the video to the letter if your previous install crashed (I realized mine did as I changed the Profile of the Video for Profile desktop-gnome-systemd, as I enabled in locale US & Spanish...)
Tip = try to install virtual first (as I've done) so that don't take crashes out with the hardware
Tip = whenever you get a different outcome than video recorded try to check it (write down) in case causes system wreck
Good luck & Fortune to all!
🤗

[dr.m.sanaullahsahar]

Looking forward to watch your tutorial on installing Gentoo on raspberry pi

[rbus]

Thanks for the explanatory guide, I installed Gentoo base thanks to you, now I wanted to ask you, do a second part where the graphical desktop is installed? I would also be interested because I would not want to install useless packages that take up space and I do not use them. I thank you in advance.

[oz]

Have it already installed on my desktop PC. Now do configuring stage of portage

[iankester-haney]

FAT32 made perfect sense at the time. They needed a "universally " supported filesystem and FAT32 fit the bill. And really Apple started the EFI process but AFS just isn't supported well in other Operating Systems. The best part of EFI is it becomes OS agnostic as many OS types can share the boot partition without requiring a dedicated boot loader (grub, lilo, etc...). The UEFI system can start the OS natively if configured that way. IMHO, the only real issue is how Secure Boot is implemented by Linux.

[RickhCool]

Nice work Chris. I’m going to build on laptop Thinkpad p53 which has 32G ram and 1Tb Nvme do in need to make a swap partition or could I use zram, maybe just do not need a swap of any kind. I’m going to setup Btrfs with Home and Snapshots.

[mpagano]

I'm not gonna lie, I was a little sad not to see you do a custom kernel. :) j/k

[Strydoestech]

I did everything but forgot to unmount at the end still boots tho will I be fine also great video

[seedney]

all went good, no errors, except after rebooting... My virtual system went to emergency mode only... Testing other OSes and only pfsense and RHEL seems to install without issues.. weird... arch, gentoo, BSDs - goes kernel panic... I'm doing everything like in the video, except with 'i386-pc', not EFI on VM - maybe that's the problem on modern pc and libvirt (I was previously using VirtualBox without EFI without issues)?

[Egzoset]

Oh my, RedCore been trouble enough! Yet the slogan « Fix once, break many » keeps verifying again and again and again...

[csh]

above my pay grade until they put a gui installer in the live gui edition.

[jonnyspeed]

If you are using profiles and binaries, you might as well just install Debian.