User:Zulu Foxtrott/GentooOnARM/EasyInstall

How the installation is structured
The Gentoo Installation can be seen as a 9-step procedure, corresponding to the next set of chapters. Each step results in a certain state:

Whenever a certain choice is presented the handbook will try to explain the pros and cons of each choice. Although the text then continues with a default choice (identified by "Default: " in the title), the other possibilities will be documented as well (marked by "Alternative: " in the title). Do not think that the default is what Gentoo recommends. It is, however, the choice that Gentoo believes most users will make.

Sometimes an optional step can be followed. Such steps are marked as "Optional: " and are therefore not needed to install Gentoo. However, some optional steps are dependent on a previously made decision. The instructions will inform the reader when this happens, both when the decision is made, and right before the optional step is described.

Selecting the target platform
Devices of all shapes and sizes are built around ARM's instruction set architectures (ISA). They range from tiny embedded controllers for robots to big server hardware for data center workloads, with some of them based on the older ARM ISA and others featuring the newer AArch64 (often referred to as ARM64) ISA. Thus it is only logical that no single set of installation instructions fits all target systems.

Select the system that is supposed to run Gentoo.

ARM systems

 * ASUS Chromebook C201
 * Partition table: GPT (recommended)

ARM64 systems
Recommended defaults:
 * ROCKPro64
 * Partition table: GPT (recommended)
 * Raspberry Pi4
 * Partition table: MBR
 * Generic: refer to the AMD64 Handbook and adapt to ARM64