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I successfully installed Gentoo for the first time today! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by H2207 to c/[email protected]

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Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[–] spagnod 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hehe... I installed Gentoo last year and I was thrown in the deepest of deep ends after having to set up a custom initramfs for my LUKS setup... took about a week to get it running...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I created a bash script which creates a custom initramfs for me every time kernel is updated. 😜 I know, I reinvented the wheel... kinda. My script actually only takes a list of files, directories, modules, firmware files and packs them into a cpio archive. The actual init scripts inside initramfs (for example) are not provided, but left for the user to write or copy from somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what weirdness are you doing that Dracut can't handle it?

[–] spagnod 2 points 1 year ago

I was too lazy to actually learn dracut, and I thought that setting up custom initramfs would help me gain insight into the linux boot process. Normal Gentoo stuff lol