Linked by Dave Scott on Mon 17th Mar 2003 17:36 UTC
I recently read Dustin Wilson's Newbie Gentoo Review and as a 'n00b' who recently installed Gentoo, I found it to be a good article about Gentoo. It is a very good overview of the installation and configuration process. After reading all the comments about how most people thought or were looking for it to be a newbie walkthrough, I thought that as a 'n00b' who has recently installed Gentoo, I would try to write a little something about installing Gentoo for the newbie.
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The only times I have changed the root password while booted from the rc2 CD is when I install the OS over SSH. That's right boys and girls, you can install this over SSH and help out someone who is new to this. I have installed Gentoo on other servers (in some cases a few states away) over broadband, and it works just fine. The *only* major issue is not having "screen" to maintain a session, so if your session is broken, so is your current install process, which can be very annoying with having to chroot back into your environment. But I have installed from Stage 1 over SSH about a dozen or so times and only had one bomb out (that was because my friend's ISP had this stupid 8hr time limit on his DSL before they would disconnect him and he would have to reconnect). However, what I did do was get the environment running, start the SSH server in the new environment (but on a different port) to get the keys made, then shut it down and reset the port. Once I had the install completed, I made sure to have the passwords setup and added SSH to the service list. I then had my friend's girlfriend take out the CD when I rebooted the system and I was up and running in the new installation. It's pretty nice having this remote install ability.
Oh, and with my previous flags comment, I forgot to wrap up with stating that the command line USE flag overrides the make.conf USE line which overrides the make.global USE line. I hope that clears that point up.