[gentoo-amd64] make.conf for the install CD?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   A friend was thinking about installing Gentoo for the first time.
As I haven't done a new x86 install in maybe a year or more and my
AMD64 install was in 2004 I thought I'd look at the state of things
from the POV of a new user.

1) One new thing (for me) is the future elimination of the 200X.Y
install CDs in favor of some sort of a weekly release. I downloaded
and booted from here:

http://mirrors.kernel.org/gentoo/releases/amd64/current/

2) Poking around the running environment things seem to work and it's
nicely up to date with a new kernel, etc. One thing I didn't find
though was /etc/make.conf.

   I'm curious as to where I might get a copy of make.conf to see how
gcc flags were set up for this CD? If there isn't a specific file then
is there some way to get the flag settings from some other tool?

   Also, is there an AMD64 Quick Install guide? I did this AMD64
install 5 years ago and there wasn't in those days. I'm only spotting
x86 now.

Thanks,
Mark