Handbook:Parts/Installation/About/ja

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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 のインストール作業工程は、次章以降で説明する10のステップに分けられます. それぞれの段階を適切に完了させましょう.

このハンドブックでは、一定の選択肢を提示したときには必ず、賛否両論の併記に努めます. デフォルトの選択肢で進める記載をした際にも（見出しに「デフォルト:」と記載）、他に取りうる選択肢も記載します（見出しに「代替案:」と記載）. 決して、「デフォルトは Gentoo のお勧めだ」と考えないでください. デフォルトはあくまでも、多くのユーザーが利用すると思われる選択肢にすぎません.

ときには、追加可能な手順が続くことがあります. そのような手順は「追加可能:」と記載します. つまりこの手順は、Gentoo のインストール自体には必須ではありません. とはいえ、以前にした決断によっては必須になる追加手順もあります. その際には、その追加手順の説明の直前に、この旨を明記するとともに、原因となった決断をした時期も記載します.

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.

また、我々が提供している『Gentoo Installation tips and Tricks』 という文書も役にたつかもしれません.

トラブルがあったときは
インストール中に (またはインストール文書に) 何か問題を見つけたら、バグトラッキングシステムで既知のバグとして報告されていないかどうか、確認してみてください. もし無いようであれば、私たちが対応できるように、その問題をバグ報告してください. その (あなたが報告した) バグを担当する開発者たちを恐れないでください. 取って喰われるようなことは (滅多に) ありませんから.

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.