Contents

• Introduction
  • Installation
  • Setup
  • Cool stuff
  • Conventions
• Installation
  • Setup
    • Make a bootable flash drive
  • Booting
  • Configuring the Network
  • Partitioning
  • Encrypting
    • Configure encryption
      • Creating a keyfile
      • Encrypting the partition
    • Configure LVM
    • Create the filesystems
    • Mount the filesystems
  • Installing stage 3
    • Set the date and time
    • Downloading the stage 3 tarball
    • Picking an editor
    • Configuring compile options
    • Configuring the main Gentoo repository
    • Copy DNS configuration
    • Mount the filesystems
    • Enter the new environment
    • Configuring portage
    • Configure the timezone
    • Configure the locale
  • Kernel
    • Install the sources
    • Configure the kernel
    • Make the initramfs
    • Naming the files
  • System Configuration
    • Filesystem Mounting
    • Name the computer
    • Configuring ethernet
    • Set a root password
    • Set up a system logger
    • Set up a cron daemon
    • SSH
    • LVM
  • Bootloader
    • Installing the bootloader
    • Rebooting
      • Rescue
• Setup
  • Sudo
  • GPG signed portage snapshots
  • PaXtest
  • Setting up ccache
  • Configuring WiFi using wicd
  • Sound
    • ALSA Setup
    • Playing Music
  • GRUB Default Boot Choice
  • Layman
  • Avahi Daemon
  • Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
    • Brother Printers
  • Sensors
  • Locate
  • Desktop environment
• Cool Stuff
  • Cool packages
    • cowsay
    • fortune
    • linux-logo
    • libcaca
    • toilet
    • figlet
  • Cool tricks
    • Cool login prompts with /etc/motd and /etc/issue
    • Nice console font with consolefont
    • ASCII art Linux penguin at boot with linux-logo
    • Cool grub theme
  • Useful commands
    • Image a failing drive with dd
    • Mount images made with dd using losetup
    • Use fdisk -l on a file