Gentoo Linux: Stage3 Base Install

In this video I am going to do a Stage3 base installation of Gentoo Linux. I am going to eventually expand to more videos next year. Gentoo Linux is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution (like Arch Linux), the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer. Precompiled binaries are available for some larger packages or those with no available source code.

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[sethsrc]

Your channel is amazing! I only use arch because of your installation tutorial. Thanks!!

[gng]

The early Christmas gift is finally here

[cyberagent]

After a very long time finally a great video on Gentoo. 🎉
My heart felt wishes to you and your family. Happy Holidays.

[nelsono]

Happy Holidays, Ermanno! Thank You for all the great videos

[serge]

A few points worth mentioning.
To give an idea of how long some commands take just type time in front of them. For instance time genkernel all will give you three times at the end of the execution.
At 21:28 the --make-rslave mount commands are only needed if you intend to use sytemd (in a blue Note in the Handbook)
At 25:48 You got a message "Unable to find kernel sources at /usr/src/linux" This is the result of doing a world update before installing the gentoo-sources. I know the handbook recommends doing a world update but they should also add to emerge the sources before doing that. Now some packages like portage have been compiled without the real sources.
At 33:51 You accepted the license for the 20201022-r3 version of the linux-firmware package which means the next time this package is updated you'll have to accept it once more.
It is better to say no to the question and then you type nano /etc/portage/package.license. In that file you put this line: sys-kernel/linux-firmware linux-fw-redistributable no-source-code, you save the file and reemerge the command. Now each time there is an update for the linux-firmware package you won't have to accept the license again !
Pay attention there is a space between the category/package and the first option and between the first and the second option !
At 36:02 It took a long time because neither did you edit /etc/genkernel.conf before executing genkernel nor did you give the --makeopts=-j5 option to the genkernel command. When you'll rebuild your kernel don't forget to do it like this: genkernel --makeopts=-j5 --menuconfig all It will go faster and you'll be able to tweak your kernel.
At 37:39 you rebuilt a package which was already installed. When you see a R in yellow without any change in the USE flags and without the presence of a small r before R the package hasn't changed so it makes no sense to rebuild it.
At 39:08 you use defaults for swap. You ought to use sw because defaults implies rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser and async and some of these options don't make sense for swap
Don't forget to change the profile to a desktop one when you'll want to add a WM/DE. Don't forget to edit /etc/portage/make.conf and add the appropriate values for the variables VIDEO_CARDS and INPUT_DEVICES before emerging xorg-x11
Cheers

[mark]

Very helpful video. This was my second time using the video alongside the amd64 handbook to install gentoo. 👍

[taidee]

It’s been a very busy time for me Master, it’s only now I’m here. Thank you for providing us a class with Gentoo even though for my weak PC I think it would be a struggle compiling this stuff, so I’ll stay with Arch|Qtile until I upgrade my hardware.

[Mingura]

I remember when I subscribed to your channel. I was the 600th or so a year ago.

One year later and here we are with Gentoo.

I hope next year we will see Linux from scratch and 10M subscribers.

[micleh]

That was hard work. Thanks for taking the time to make the video. Happy holidays and have some special time with your family and your parents / in-laws.

[jishnubiswas]

Merry christmas and a happy new year Ermano ! From i3 to artix and now gentoo your channel has taught me a lot this year thanks ! Hope u have a nice year ahead

[marvicdigital]

One of the good things that this year has left me has been your channel, your explanations make linux easy, Thank you very much for the good videos and I hope you have a merry Christmas and a good year 2021. Greetings.

[benarcher]

Thank you Ermanno. Gentoo reminds me of the LFS project that I many years ago followed. A lot of work setting up the system, but with the bonus of high adaptability. I will stick with Arch, being a good candidate for me (somewhere btw Gentoo and e.g. Ubuntu). Thank you for all the good videos during 2020, and I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

[mylinuxgr]

Really amazing help! Thank you very much! Happy holidays!

[ivanhoe]

Never gonna install gentoo, probably, but I could not stop watching your video anyway, they’re very interesting, well done and well explained! Just a thing, I think in MAKEOPTS the number after the J can be the num of CPU cores +1, so in your case you could have used 5 instead of 4... again, beautiful video, can’t wait to see more, and buon natale!

[mustafababdullah]

I wish every person showing or teaching linux was a honest and forthright as the brother here!!! So many act like they know when in fact a donkey knows more

[arddaka]

Your videos are amazing. Merry Christmas!

[cycy]

Thanks for the video! By following your tutorial, I was able to get gentoo installed on my system.

[probookhp]

Great video as always, clear and simple.Thank you!

[devflanker]

Thank you, for the first time as a complete newbie of gentoo, i managed the install on my laptop👍👍👍👌

[mohammadnoorain]

Good video, I switched to Gentoo 2 months ago. It's such a good distro that now it's my daily driver