User:Monsieurp/Gentoo Quick Installation Guide

I'm assuming Gentoo is to be installed on /dev/sda and that the disk is blank. Also, I'm assuming you've managed to boot Gentoo off of a USB stick or something of the like and you're at the prompt, trying to figure out what to do next.

To begin with, let's lay out our partition schema:


 * 512 MB allocated for the EFI files
 * 8 GB allocated for the swap
 * the remaining space allocated for the system

Now let's format each partition:

We must now prepare the folders in which partitions are to be mounted:

Let's fetch stage3:

Bind mount /dev, /proc and /sys:

Copy /etc/resolv.conf and chroot in your new system:

The installation can be resumed from there: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Quick_Installation_Checklist#Portage