A calm, no-nonsense guide on how to install a minimal Gentoo system. Gentoo AMD64 Handbook: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64 Gentoo Mirrors Page: https://www.gentoo.org/downloads/mirrors/ Kernel Compilation Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APQY0wUbBow Genfstab Script: https://github.com/glacion/genfstab Piano music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6hRV-Nq1Q0 0:00 Introduction 0:06 Why I'm using Linux Mint 0:37 Switching to root 0:54 Partitioning the disks 1:34 Formatting the partitions 2:03 Making /mnt/gentoo 2:23 Mounting the partitions 2:59 Installing a stage tarball 3:06 Checking the date 3:38 Picking a tarball 4:11 Downloading the tarball 4:27 Extracting the tarball 4:46 Configuring compile options 5:09 Setting MAKEOPTS 6:10 Selecting mirrors 6:51 Copying DNS info 7:10 Mounting Gentoo 7:33 Fixing /dev/shm 8:05 Chrooting into Gentoo 8:35 Running emerge-webrsync 8:51 Reading news items with eselect 9:21 Choosing a profile 10:29 What do profiles actually do? 10:54 What are USE flags? 11:47 How to configure USE flags 13:05 Why you should change USE flags 13:25 Updating the world set 14:11 Setting ACCEPT_LICENSE 15:01 Timezone 15:29 Locale 16:18 Kernel configuration 16:48 Sike! We're installing a binary! 16:53 Picking an Installkernel 17:18 Installing the binary kernel 17:43 Note on kernel modules 17:56 Note on linux-firmware 18:06 Generating the fstab 18:28 Switching back to the mint user 18:46 Running genfstab 19:07 Editing the fstab 19:38 Note on networking 19:47 Hostname 20:08 Hosts file 20:19 Root password 20:45 Note on init/keymap config 20:55 Installing additional packages 21:34 Bootloader (GRUB) 22:29 Configuring sudo 22:53 Adding a user 23:22 Setting the user password 23:33 Deleting the stage archive 23:43 Time to reboot! 24:02 First boot into Gentoo 24:18 Increasing font size 24:24 Screenfetch for the memes 24:32 Note on Xorg 25:14 Troubleshooting tips 25:23 Outro •Site: https://denshi.org/