Installing Gentoo

**Dude500** · 06-12-2005

I was wondering how you would install Gentoo onto a blank harddrive. Do I need a boot disk or something else

oz · 06-12-2005

If you have burned the gentoo iso to disk, you should be able to use that if your bios is set to boot from the cdrom drive.

**jaboua** · 06-12-2005

I would make no /boot, just have it at the / partition (as I always do), have a decent / partition, maybe have a seperate /home (thought I call it /personal to make different operative systems have their own /home partitions and not mess up something because they use different versions of stuff, and a small /other partition where you can install other distros so that you won't have to earse gentoo if you ever would want to install an other OS or an other distro.

SO:
/ partition
/personal partition
swap partition
/other partition

**genesus** · 06-12-2005

you can use your dsl live cd to install gentoo just fine.

**jaboua** · 06-12-2005

Oh, I thought you meant /boot disk

**Dude500** · 06-13-2005

I can boot from a cd, so I could use the iso, but the iso files are kinda of big

**budman7** · 06-14-2005

Originally Posted by Dude500

I can boot from a cd, so I could use the iso, but the iso files are kinda of big

The iso's are big for a floppy, ok to big for a floppy.
The minimal installation iso is only 60 MB or so.
And the Universal iso is under 400 MB.

**Dude500** · 06-14-2005

Okay that will work and I can get addtional software from other places

**loft306** · 06-22-2005

Originally Posted by Dude500

I can boot from a cd, so I could use the iso, but the iso files are kinda of big

dude500 all you need to install gentoo with in the minamal cd.....that is if you have a fast inet connx other wise i'd d/l the full iso and the pkg disk or aquire one from a site that sells them for $1-$5 apiece pre burned

**Dude500** · 06-23-2005

Well I will just download the min iso

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