Thank you so much! This helped me get a Gentoo install in less than 12 hours my first time without any errors. The especially long times because I was running on a really weak machine and what took you 14 minutes to compile took me 6 hours lol
Once again, I have to say, these videos you made were a god send. I've been wanting to get into the Gentoo world for a long time, but as you said, it was a bit intimidating at first. You explained things very very well, and I've successfully built 2 physical systems - the second of which with LVM and full disk encryption, using your vids as a guide. Awesome work. Any plans to make some other videos about some gentoo basics maybe, optimization or package management? Anything really XD
Thanks Dustin! I'm glad you were able to get the install finished. And yes there will be more Gentoo in the future once I circle my way back to it :) I do still have it install on one of my hard drives in my test machine.
I ran across your video while looking for help installing Gentoo. Yours is the most informative and in-depth one currently on youtube, imho. Thank you for making it easy, even though I made it harder on myself since I do prefer systemd over openrc. It took a few tries, but I have it running. I first tried Gentoo 20 years ago, but my equipment certainly was not up to the task back then. Again a big Thank You.
Great job! I have installed Gentoo right along with you. Glad I did since you showed the pitfalls to look out for or it would have taken longer to fix the install. I installed konsole before entering the desktop because you had pointed out that it isn't automatically installed, for instance.
Thank you for the effort you put into these videos. it's really well done and I watched the whole thing. (I'm not actually planning to switch to Gentoo any sooner. I'm already having enough trouble with arch) But really cool video and well explained. Thank you.
@@Doriandotslash yeah I mean I was pretty comfortable with arch until I installed it in my new two in one laptop. it's two days I'm trying to figure out how to activate the headphone jack :) (not a kernel error. I tried almost every kernel)
Hi Dorian, Thanks for your Vídeos. Part 1 has helped me to install live cd on Qemu. After trying more than 10 times I nearly gave up until I watched your video. I'm very very happy about this.
You're too kind Johan, thank you! Doing this or even watching it is a good way to learn linux under the hood since Gentoo doesn't really do anything for you automatically.
This was amazing! Thank you for doing this! It's quite interesting how similar to installing arch it gets as you get closer to finishing the complete installation. I really like the idea of gentoo and everything but if installing packages can take anywhere from a minute to an hour then it's definitely not for me. I am very impatient lol but I would definitely love to give this a shot!
Thank you! You can do this in a virtual machine too. This way you can just save the current state and shut it down and then resume right where you left off another day. The flatpaks are also an option for quickly getting software installed once you have your base system in place.
Thanks so much for the video, great video!!! Very interesting to see the installation video of Gentoo with the XFCE desktop environment. Maybe you would like to make a video installing Gentoo+ XFCE for novice Gentoo users. Thanks!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Xfce isn't that different than a Plasma install. There's a similar guide with instructions just like I did with Plasma. You simply install xfce4-meta instead. It's also a little quicker to compile.
thanks for the great videos. I took a COMPtia linux+ in my last year of college so I don't have very much experience and with the videos install was easy. Running Dell_server>>Esxi 6.7>>Gentoo VM no issues with any hardware or software. Couple of spots where the files are in a different location then video but easy to fix. Just moved the files or change the path. Cheers! I might try this on my pi4.
holy crap dude you saved me. first time using gentoo "trying redcore" linux i was used to doing sudo dude the --ask is so much easier. just gotta remember that now lol thanks alot
I know this video has been offerred over 3 years ago. That said, trying to follow it is easy enough, but there has been a change in where emerge puts the downloaded source code. It puts it in /usr/src/linux-x.x.xx-gentoo rather than /usr/src/linux. This causes Genkernel to fail. What is the proper method to still use Genkernel or should we just follow the handbook on the "Configuring the Kernel" page?
im gonna use genkernel like u did cuz configuring my own kernel seems a bit daunting right now and this is my first gentoo install, but ill probably switch in the future!!
Yes I'm probably never going to configure it all from every option because genkernel works fine for me, and it only takes 14 minutes to compile the kernel so no big deal. Good luck on your build!
@@Doriandotslash O btw, I installed it on my laptop that I barely use a few days ago with a custom kernel and I'm liking it, I might switch on my main machine because sometimes arch just gets boring xD
Nice videos! First time I get to see the entire Gentoo installation. Gentoo has always been too daunting, but after these videos I will find some time to try it out on old hardware to see how it behaves. Thanks!
Thank you and I’m glad to hear you’ll give it a shot! You can also try doing it in a virtual machine as well. I think there’s quite a few Gentoo install videos out there but maybe not one that goes all the way to a desktop install. It takes quite a while to do it all, hence 2 videos instead of one really long one. Cheers and good luck!
Hey when I did /etc/init.d/xdm it wouldn't start, and I did alot to try to fix it to make the desktop appear but now it doesnt and it doesnt show any errors
@@MohamedAhmed-fw6pp I had to do sddm and rebuild my kernel to the newest and fiddle around xinitrc file on my user (not root) and do startx as user and enable a driver from my kernel to get it to start
In 44:00 Select session, your session shows plasma and plasma wayland, here on mine it doesn't show, it shows only Xsession. I put the password to log in and then it comes back asking again
Hey Dorian, as a starter to Gentoo I must say this was an amazing video to get started. I have a doubt regarding the KDE installation part... for the video driver installation what driver should I install as I also installed on a VM but used virtualbox for it... so dunno if I have to use qxl too Thanks in advance :3
You did a great job getting me through part 1 But sadly part 2 seems to be missing some significant parts The first divergence is @36:20 I do not get the "USE" changes warning and @41:30 the "/etc/conf.d/xdm" file does not exist for me I have a booting Genoo Linux machine that can get to the internet and that is no small feat! Thank you for the great video. Hopefully I can figure out what the hell I screwed up
@@roarba Yes I did... apparently during my starts and stops I missed several steps 1st was make sure you are in /mnt/gentoo before you unpack the stage 3 . and I seem to have missed half the step in the grub install
Also going through.. I discovered after you emerge gentoo sources the directory will be /usr/src/linux-someversionnumber and you will have to rename it to /usr/src/linux for genkernel to work
Thank you! I thought about it, but the procedure is pretty much the same as a VM. The only differences would be changing the VIDEO_CARDS in the make.conf file like I did for my real machine. I put "amdgpu". Other than that, unless you need special drivers loaded for anything, it's the same.
@@Doriandotslash The real hardware is way much different, the strong hold of having distro like Gentoo is compiling your own kernel and customize it, this is super helpful recognizing some weird hardware that's other pre build Distro can't run. I know it's exhausting works, but it's will be uniquid we don't want to ask to much just do the experience/record it if you think it worth it edit/upload .
Can anyone help me? I followed all of the instructions, but obviously screwed up somewhere because when I reboot, the only thing I have is an ugly login prompt that says "Welcome to Gentoo-Linux" and a "Console log for Gentoo-Linux box in the lower right part of the screen. When I login, a box shows up in the upper left of the screen with 4 options: "Client List, Session Log, Checkpoint, and Shutdown" and in the lower right there is still the "Console log dialog box" But that's it. I can do nothing else. I am unable to get to a command prompt to even try to troubleshoot or fix something. I really hate to give up at this point because it has taken me several days to get to this point! Argghhh. Thanks in advance for any help at all on this. Also, when I reboot, it comes to this login screen no matter what option I select . . . :(
I wish someone would provide a preconfigured fully-functional install image that I could then modify as I see fit, instead of having to start completely from scratch. It's _SO_ tedious.
You could always setup a basic install and then take an image backup of your drive that you can reuse later. But then you’ll have lots of updates anyways. Or, you can use a Gentoo-based distro like Calculate or Red Core.
Hello Im getting [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit ("sys-apps/sysvinit" is blocking sys-apps/systemd-247.2-r4) This error after writing emerge --ask --noreplace net-misc/netifrc
You have this error because you try to install netifrc while you chose either a systemd Gentoo tarball or a systemd profile. netifrc depends on OpenRC. So either don't install it or install it with OpenRC (which means no systemd) !
Nice Video, i was using Gentoo on my 2010 MB but compiling was just giving me pain so i switched back to a binary distro. I am currently thinking about installing it on my dual core thinkpad, do you know if the cpu can manage that or if it's just to weak for the moment?
Thank you! Well that depends on what you want to install. It WILL work, the only issue is how long it will take to compile. So if you want Plasma or Gnome, that will takes quite some time to compile, but using Xfce or a TWM like i3 will be much faster.
Right before reboot if i type the umount -l command it errors with: umount: /mnt/gentoo/dev{/shm,: no mount point specified, and the same for pts EDIT: nvm i umount -R then force reboot by holding down the power key on my laptop and i can boot up fine, thanks for the guide!
Hey, I know it might be a long shot but I've followed your video and the wiki and managed to get a working gentoo installation all but KDE plasma, after i log in with sddm I get a black screen with nothing but my mouse cursor. I've looked everywhere and nothing I found helped
I haven't tried the tools. But the only DE that has issues with resolution in a VM is Plasma. But I just disabled kscreen and manually set the resolution to bypass that annoyance.
Just follow the same mounting steps from the first video where you started off until you get into the chroot part. Then you can try and reinstall the bootloader. Before doing that, just check your motherboard settings and see if the option is there and just not selected. On some systems you have to manually setup which bootloader to use after you've installed an OS.
Upon further investigation, it appears a required package is being masked by "|| () linux-fw-redistributable no-source-code licenses(s), missing keyword."
After even more googling, it turns out that the default licenses apparently blocked linux-firmware. Why or how that happened is a complete mystery to me, I thought Linux was FOSS but I guess Gentoo would beg to differ?
@@rlenclub Genkernel may do something or use something that falls under a specific license. This is why I didn't want to mess around with any licensing issues and just set it to "*".
Ok so I set up XDM probably incorrectly so now I get a janky lookin log in screen that is nothing like yours, how do I disable this as a runtime thingy and fix it? is there a command so I can go back to the terminal? Edit: Ok so I chrooted in and disabled it, not sure why KDE isn't really working, but!!! I will look around Edit2: I decided to use xfce and it works fine thanks a lot for the great tutorial series!
Great! If you still want to use SDDM, just have a look at the SDDM and XDM pages to make sure it's configured properly. It's possible that something in the packages have changed since this video came out.
Hi ds, I think that Willian Richard comment is very important to add into your great Video (or instead, to put the comment at the top). Thank you for your Video :-)
I'm probably late but my fix is to type 'eselect kernel list' to view your available kernels, you probably only have one then type 'eselect kernel set (your kernel number here)' . Example, eselect kernel set 1
Gentoo: "Run the following command which takes 3 hours to compile" ... (3 pages later) - "...by the way, that command you ran, if you're a human you need to run a different command..."
Plasma works well on less powerful CPU's as well. I even used it on my Pinebook Pro's ARM processor and it was snappy. Compiling it is a different story though. Xfce is also a great choice and much lighter to build. What do you use for a desktop? Or are you running a WM?
@@Doriandotslash I have Plasma on Arch and both Gnome and Sway WM (separately) on openSUSE. Also, have plans to add Xmonad on Arch. I like Gentoo but it's very tricky. I've been distrohopping a lot lately ... Hope this setup stays around 😄
I think it’s great. It was the first distro I used back in the 90’s when it was really the only one around. Not a whole lot seems to have changed. Gentoo is like Slackware but with extra tools to centralize your optimizations and make everything work well together, and includes tools to fix any conflicts. With Slackware you’re kinda on your own. I’ll admit that I haven’t used Slackware in a long time, but perhaps I’ll revisit it just to see what’s changed and how it compares to gentoo.
Hahahaha, I tried using wpa_supplicant beucase i'm installing is on a test-object laptop, but 68 dependencies was needed oh hell :( Another 5 hours with this pentium :(
emerge -avuND @world, emerge -av package_folder/package_name, avoid global USE flags as much as you can if you don't plan to rebuild large portions of system in the future.
Nice! You can do Gnome without systemd, but it takes a bit of tweaking and using overlays. Instructions are here : wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GNOME/GNOME_Without_systemd/Gentoo
for everyone who want to try it in real hardware, you can make keynote of important command, either save it or email it tour email and read it via your phone, this will make things much easier since the online guide is too big
Glad you liked it! The package manager is actually called Portage, but emerge is the Portage command you'll use most often. I'll be discussing it more in a future video. With these 2 videos I just wanted to get the base system down before going further with Portage.
If you go under the Video device in virt-manager and set the Model to "Virtio" you don't have to disable KScreen, the resolution doesn't jump back and also remembers it on reboot
Yes this is true. But I find qxl has the better performance of the 3 options and I prefer to use that. There's screen settings with Xorg you can set so that you get the resolution you want right from the login screen. That will be in the next video.