Handbook:Parts/Installation/About/zh-cn

欢迎
First of all, welcome to Gentoo! You are about to enter the world of choices and performance. Gentoo is all about choices. When installing Gentoo, this is made clear several times - users can choose how much they want to compile themselves, how to install Gentoo, what system logger to use, etc.

Gentoo is a fast, modern meta-distribution with a clean and flexible design. It is built on an ecosystem of free software and does not hide what is beneath the hood from its users. Portage, the package maintenance system which Gentoo uses, is written in Python, meaning the user can easily view and modify the source code. Gentoo's packaging system uses source code (although support for pre-compiled packages is included too) and configuring Gentoo happens through regular text files. In other words, openness everywhere.

It is very important that everyone understands that choices are what makes Gentoo run. We try not to force users into anything they do not like. If anyone believes otherwise, please bug report it.

How the installation is structured
Gentoo的安装可以被分成10个步骤，分别对应后续的章节. 执行完每个步骤，都会让系统进入某种确定的状态：

当面临选择的时候，手册上会尽量说明每个选择的利弊. 虽然手册会以默认选择（标题中有 “默认Default：” 标记）继续描述下去，但其他可能的选择同样也会在文档中说明（标题中有 “可选Alternative：” 标记）. 请不要认为默认选择是Gentoo的推荐，这只不过是Gentoo认为大多数用户会使用的选择.

有时候你也可以进行一些可选的步骤. 这样的步骤会被标注为“可选Optional：”，当然这些步骤对于安装Gentoo来说就不是必须的. 然而，有些可选的步骤依赖于你先前所做出的决定. 我们将会在你需要做这样决定以及可选步骤出现的时候提醒你.

Installation options for Gentoo
Gentoo can be installed in many different ways. It can be downloaded and installed from official Gentoo installation media such as our CDs and DVDs. The installation media can be installed on a USB stick or accessed via a netbooted environment. Alternatively, Gentoo can be installed from non-official media such as an already installed distribution or a non-Gentoo bootable disk (such as Knoppix).

This document covers the installation using official Gentoo Installation media or, in certain cases, netbooting.

我们也提供一个 Gentoo Installation Tips and Tricks 它可能值得一看.

遇到麻烦
如果在安装（或安装文档中）发现问题,请访问我们的bug跟踪系统 并确认这个Bug是否已经被提交. 如果没有提交，请为它创建一个错误报告以方便我们的后续处理. 不要害怕和被分配解决这个问题的开发人员交流——他们(通常)不吃人.

Note though that, although this document is architecture-specific, it might contain references to other architectures as well. This is due to the fact that large parts of the Gentoo Handbook use installation source text that is shared for all architectures (to avoid duplication of efforts and starvation of development resources). We will try to keep this to a minimum to avoid confusion.

If there is some uncertainty whether or not the problem is a user-problem (some error made despite having read the documentation carefully) or a software-problem (some error we made despite having tested the installation/documentation carefully) everybody is welcome to join the channel on irc.freenode.net. Of course, everyone is welcome otherwise too as our chat channel covers the broad Gentoo spectrum.

Speaking of which, if there are any additional questions regarding Gentoo, check out the Frequently Asked Questions article. There are also FAQs on the Gentoo Forums.