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Basic Installation Steps

All of the snapshots follow the Gentoo style of simply using tarballs. Get get one of these installed on your system, you do the classic boot, untar, chroot steps. If you need a refresher, look below. If you don't know what I'm talking about, read the quick install guide all the way up through the part about "Installing the Gentoo Base System". But, instead of using Gentoo's tarball, use one of mine.

Refresher Steps

• Boot off of the Gentoo CD
• Set time: date MMDDhhmm
• Use some combination of fdisk, lvm2, mke2fs, mkswap to make yourself happy.
• Mount the works to: /mnt/gentoo
• Copy the tarball into /mnt/gentoo. I personally "scp" the tarball from some other machine.
• untar the works:
  cd /mnt/gentoo
  tar -jxvf 2005.1-r1.i686-upgraded.2006-03-14.tar.bz2
  
• Chroot into the new envrionment
  mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
  cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/
  chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
  env-update && source /etc/profile