Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Nilesh Govindrajan <me@××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo User Mailing List <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:32:41
Message-Id: CAHgBc-ubD9vEytpCPdeE86GDxsOSdCido6AU381oe0n6UrgL6g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] by Guido Budack
1 On 04-Mar-2014 11:50 pm, "Guido Budack" <glaivy@××××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > Hi,
4 >
5 > actually I am reading the handbook because I intend to change from debian
6 to gentoo.
7 > I am some sort of a 'purist'.. however...
8 > I just ask myself while reading chapter 3 very carefully:
9 >
10 > isn't it necessary to modify any fstab after you installed partitions and
11 file-systems resp.
12 > mouting the same?
13 > Since now I can't see anything comparable in the handbook.
14 >
15 > Secondly I intend to install from scratch- that means no network.
16 > Will I get a root-prompt after the fist steps of installation?
17 > The controverse discussions in the web are not really satisfying...
18 >
19 >
20 > Greets
21 >
22 > Gee
23 >
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42
43 There's no installer kind of thing for gentoo. You boot to a live cd or a
44 running distro, download a stage 3 tar, extract.
45
46 It acts as the base for your installation. You then configure this base in
47 various aspects, and fstab of the base is edited at last before rebooting.

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