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Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0 hb-install-about.xml |
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Added: xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0 |
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hb-install-x86-about.xml |
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Split install-about to be x86 specific |
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file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-about.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo |
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plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-about.xml?rev=1.2&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo |
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diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-about.xml.diff?r1=1.1&r2=1.2&cvsroot=gentoo |
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Index: hb-install-about.xml |
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- The <b>x86</b> architecture (x86, athlon-xp, pentium3, pentium4) |
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- Note: The x86 packages (packages-x86-2006.0.iso) are available on |
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- our mirrors, while pentium3, pentium4 and athlon-xp are only available |
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- via bittorrent. |
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+ The <b>i686</b> architecture (athlon, athlon-xp, athlon-mp, pentium-pro, |
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+ pentium2, pentium3, pentium4 and pentium-m) |
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+ Note: The i686 packages are available on the Installer LiveCD. |
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The <b>amd64</b> architecture (amd64) |
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1.1 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-about.xml |
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file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-about.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo |
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plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/2006.0/hb-install-x86-about.xml?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo |
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Index: hb-install-x86-about.xml |
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> |
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<!DOCTYPE sections SYSTEM "/dtd/book.dtd"> |
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<sections> |
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<version>5.0</version> |
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<date>2005-08-08</date> |
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<section> |
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<title>Introduction</title> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>Welcome!</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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First of all, <e>welcome</e> to Gentoo. You are about to enter the world |
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of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When |
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installing Gentoo, this is made clear to you several times -- you can |
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choose how much you want to compile yourself, how to install Gentoo, |
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what system logger you want, etc. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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Gentoo is a fast, modern metadistribution with a clean and flexible |
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design. Gentoo is built around free software and doesn't hide from its |
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users what is beneath the hood. Portage, the package maintenance system |
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which Gentoo uses, is written in Python, meaning you can easily view and |
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modify the source code. Gentoo's packaging system uses source code |
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(although support for precompiled packages is included too) and |
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configuring Gentoo happens through regular textfiles. In other words, |
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openness everywhere. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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It is very important that you understand that <e>choices</e> are what |
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makes Gentoo run. We try not to force you onto anything you don't like. |
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If you feel like we do, please <uri |
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link="http://bugs.gentoo.org">bugreport</uri> it. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>How is the Installation Structured?</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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The Gentoo Installation can be seen as a 10-step procedure, |
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corresponding to chapters 2 - 11. Every step results in |
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a certain state: |
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</p> |
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After step 1, you are in a working environment ready to install Gentoo |
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After step 2, your internet connection is prepared in case you need it (this |
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is however optional) |
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After step 3, your hard disks are initialized to house your Gentoo |
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installation |
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After step 4, your installation environment is prepared and you are |
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ready to chroot into the new environment |
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After step 5, core packages, which are the same on all Gentoo |
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installations, are installed |
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After step 6, you have compiled your Linux kernel |
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After step 7, you have written most of your Gentoo system |
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configuration files |
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After step 8, necessary system tools (which you can choose from a nice |
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list) are installed |
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After step 9, your choice of bootloader has been installed and |
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configured and you are logged in into your new Gentoo installation |
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</li> |
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After step 10, your Gentoo Linux environment is ready to be explored |
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</ul> |
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<p> |
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When you are given a certain choice, we try our best to explain what the pros |
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and cons are. We will continue then with a default |
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choice, identified by "Default: " in the title. The other |
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possibilities are marked by "Alternative: ". Do <e>not</e> |
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think that the default is what we recommend. It is however what we |
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believe most users will use. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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Sometimes you can pursue an optional step. Such steps are marked as |
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"Optional: " and are therefore not needed to install Gentoo. |
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However, some optional steps are dependant on a previous decision you |
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made. We will inform you when this happens, both when you make the |
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decision, and right before the optional step is described. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>What are my Options?</title> |
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<body> |
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<p> |
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You can install Gentoo in many different ways. You can download and install from |
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one of our Installation CDs, from an existing distribution, |
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from a bootable CD (such as Knoppix), from a netbooted environment, from a |
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rescue floppy, etc. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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This document covers the installation using the Installer LiveCD, a |
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bootable CD that contains everything you need to get Gentoo Linux up and |
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running. |
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<p> |
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This installation approach however does not immediately use the latest version |
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of the available packages; if you want this you should check out the |
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Installation Instructions inside our <uri |
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link="/doc/en/handbook/index.xml">Gentoo Linux Handbooks</uri>. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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For help on the other installation approaches, |
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please read our <uri link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">Alternative Installation |
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Guide</uri>. We also provide a <uri |
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link="/doc/en/gentoo-x86-tipsntricks.xml">Gentoo Installation Tips & |
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Tricks</uri> document that might be useful to read as well. If you feel that |
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the current installation instructions are too elaborate, feel free to use our |
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Quick Installation Guide available from our <uri |
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link="/doc/en/index.xml">Documentation Resources</uri> if your architecture |
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has such a document available. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<title>Troubles?</title> |
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If you find a problem in the installation (or in the installation |
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documentation), please check the errata from our <uri |
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link="/proj/en/releng/">Gentoo Release Engineering Project</uri>, |
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visit our <uri link="http://bugs.gentoo.org">bugtracking |
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system</uri> and check if the bug is known. If not, please create a bugreport |
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for it so we can take care of it. Do not be afraid of the developers who are |
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assigned to (your) bugs -- they generally don't eat people. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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Note though that, although the document you are now reading is |
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architecture-specific, it will contain references to other architectures as |
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well. This is due to the fact that large parts of the Gentoo Handbook use source |
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code that is common for all architectures (to avoid duplication of efforts and |
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starvation of development resources). We will try to keep this to a minimum |
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to avoid confusion. |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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If you are uncertain if the problem is a user-problem (some error you |
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made despite having read the documentation carefully) or a |
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software-problem (some error we made despite having tested the |
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installation/documentation carefully) you are free to join #gentoo on |
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irc.freenode.net. Of course, you are welcome otherwise too :) |
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</p> |
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<p> |
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If you have a question regarding Gentoo, check out our <uri |
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link="/doc/en/faq.xml">Frequently Asked |
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Questions</uri>, available from the <uri |
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link="/doc/en/">Gentoo Documentation</uri>. You can |
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also view the <uri |
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link="http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum.php?f=40">FAQs</uri> on our |
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<uri link="http://forums.gentoo.org">forums</uri>. If you can't find the answer |
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there ask on #gentoo, our IRC-channel on irc.freenode.net. Yes, several of |
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us are freaks who sit on IRC :-) |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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</section> |
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<section> |
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<title>Fast Installation using the Gentoo Reference Platform</title> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>What is the Gentoo Reference Platform?</title> |
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The Gentoo Reference Platform, from now on abbreviated to GRP, is a snapshot of |
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prebuilt packages users (that means you!) can install during the installation |
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of Gentoo to speed up the installation process. The GRP consists of all |
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packages required to have a fully functional Gentoo installation. They are not |
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just the ones you need to have a base installation up to speed in no time, but |
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all lengthier builds (such as xorg-x11, GNOME, OpenOffice, Mozilla, ...) |
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are available as GRP packages too. |
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</p> |
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However, these prebuilt packages aren't maintained during the lifetime of the |
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Gentoo distribution. They are snapshots released at every Gentoo release and |
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make it possible to have a functional environment in a short amount of time. You |
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can then upgrade your system in the background while working in your Gentoo |
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environment. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<subsection> |
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<title>How Portage Handles GRP Packages</title> |
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Your Portage tree - the collection of <e>ebuilds</e> (files that contain all |
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information about a package, such as its description, homepage, sourcecode URLs, |
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compilation instructions, dependencies, etc.) - must be synchronised with the |
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GRP set: the versions of the available ebuilds and their accompanying GRP |
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packages must match. |
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For this reason you can only benefit from the GRP packages Gentoo provides while |
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performing the current installation approach. GRP is not available for those |
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interested in performing an installation using the latest versions of all |
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available packages. |
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</p> |
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</body> |
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</subsection> |
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<title>Is GRP Available?</title> |
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Not all architectures provide GRP packages. That doesn't mean GRP isn't |
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supported on the other architectures, but it means that we don't have the |
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resources to build and test the GRP packages. |
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At present we provide GRP packages for the following architectures: |
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The <b>i686</b> architecture (athlon, athlon-xp, athlon-mp, pentium-pro, |
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pentium2, pentium3, pentium4 and pentium-m) |
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Note: The i686 packages are available on the Installer LiveCD. |
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The <b>amd64</b> architecture (amd64) |
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The <b>sparc</b> architecture (sparc64) |
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The <b>ppc</b> architecture (G3, G4, G5) |
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The <b>alpha</b> architecture |
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If your architecture (or subarchitecture) isn't on this list, you are not |
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able to opt for a GRP installation. |
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<p> |
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Now that this introduction is over, let's continue with <uri |
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link="?part=1&chap=2">Booting the Installer LiveCD</uri>. |
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</subsection> |
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