Handbook:Parts/Installation/About/es

Bienvenido
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
La instalación de Gentoo puede verse como un procedimiento de diez pasos. Después de cada paso se alcanza cierto estado:

Siempre que se presenta cierta elección, se tratará de explicar en el manual los pros y los contras de cada opción. Aunque el texto continuará con una opción por defecto (Identificada con "Por defecto:" en el título). No crea que esta opción por defecto es la Gentoo recomiendo. Es la que en Gentoo creemos que es la que la mayoría de usuarios van a utilizar.

Algunas veces se puede seguir un paso opcional. Estos pasos están marcados como "Opcional: " y por tanto no son necesarios para instalar Gentoo. Sin embargo, algunos pasos opcionales dependen de una decisión tomada previamente. Le informaremos cuando se dé el caso, tanto cuando tome la decisión, como cuando se describa el paso opcional.

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.

También ofrecemos un documento de consejos y trucos para instalar Gentoo cuya lectura también puede ser de utilidad.

Problemas
Si encuentra algún problema durante la instalación (o con el documento de instalación), por favor, visite nuestro sistema de seguimiento de incidencias y compruebe si el problema es ya conocido. Si no lo es, por favor, cree un informe sobre él para que podamos echarle un vistazo. No tema a los desarrolladores a los que se les han asignado los informes de error, (normalmente) no se comen a nadie.

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.