Handbook Talk:AMD64/Installation/Media

No "current-iso" directory
The manual says "Select the current-iso/ directory", but there is none; at least not here: http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/releases/amd64/autobuilds/

Unless I'm mistaken, it should be corrected to "current-install-amd64-minimal"? I can't do that myself because I lack edit permissions. ~ Michael Allan (talk) 11:05, 15 March 2015 (UTC)


 * I have fixed this a file ago. Thanks for reporting it! --Maffblaster (talk) 21:11, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Additional Helpful Edit
The fetching of the keys example presumes a key server has already been set; for someone starting anew, this may not be the case; instead it would be more helpful if the example instruction includes specifying the key server, as well:

pgp --keyserver hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 

The previous comment was from: Jlpoole (talk)


 * It would seem that someone took this advice because the example does (now) use the hkps.pool.sks-keyservers.net server pool. Thanks for reporting it! --Maffblaster (talk) 21:15, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

Bad link for 'Gentoo AMD64 project site'
This link (in the 'Hardware requirements' paragraph) leads here: https://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/ and gives 404 error; the link there to the archived version of the page gives 500 error.

The previous comment was from: Mz (talk)

This looks to have been taken care of. --Grknight (talk) 02:01, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Booting in UEFI mode
"When installing Gentoo with the purpose of using the UEFI interface instead of BIOS, it is recommended to boot with UEFI immediately". Those words are in "Booting the installation CD" It seems as if he had to do with the installation CD, but the CD is not able UEFI. --Quilosaq (talk)


 * I believe it should be mentioned that you need to use different media like SystemRescueCD ( https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage ) to load in UEFI and that loading in UEFI is requiered to install Gentoo which supports UEFI. - EvgeniyZh (talk)


 * You are both correct. We're working on getting the Release Engineering team to upgrade our Minimal CDs ability. Right now it can only boot in BIOS (MBR) mode. I will return here when the Handbook has been updated. Done! My edit in this section notes the Minimal install CDs inability to boot UEFI mode. It instructs the reader to use the LiveDVD instead. --Maffblaster (talk) 22:50, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

Optional:_Starting_the_SSH_daemon root login
In this section people up ssh daemon, but with latest version sshd it have #PermitRootLogin prohibit-password options by default, which allow only root login with some keys. We can add info about it to be need change sshd_config to PermitRootLogin yes

Or maybe gentoo can do it only for installation cd dvd's when prepare it ? --Cronolio (talk) 23:50, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Did you open a bug for this on Bugzilla.g.o as instructed on IRC? We'll have to work with RelEng to determine the proper solution. Good work spotting this! Don't forget to sign your comments! --Maffblaster (talk) 23:45, 14 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Yes https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=585930 --Cronolio (talk) 23:50, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Done https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=5f80a533616f8e591963a5f2ae7d7e9a694e0079 Thanks. --Cronolio (talk) 12:26, 19 June 2016 (UTC)

Typo in Burning
In the Burning with Linux section, the command  contains two hyphens in a row in the filename. - dcljr (talk) 03:15, 7 August 2016 (UTC)


 * Fixed! It was our special PHP function that inserts the name of the Arch that was broken. Thanks for reporting it! --Maffblaster (talk) 21:05, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

K3b
I don't have permissions to fix this myself. Package app-cdr/k3b should be replaced with kde-apps/k3b. Thanks. — The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fturco (talk • contribs) 15 April 2017


 * Fixed as of just a moment ago! Thanks, ! --Maffblaster (talk) 22:48, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

'Core 2' as EM64T example feels outdated
Listing Core 2 Duo & Quad processors as primary examples of EM64T CPUs seems not to be up-to-date. Core 2 is a 11 years old architecture by now (2017). Giving a Core iX as the example would fit much better.


 * Updated to Core i3, i5, and i7 for example. Please remember to sign contributions to discussion pages using the button found in the edit toolbox. Thanks! --Maffblaster (talk) 12:24, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

Typo in Note associated with: "Optional: Starting the SSH daemon"
I noticed a very minor typo in the Note associated with the SSH daemon setup.

Where it reads:

"This is because the user now log on to - for SSH - a different server..."

Does it not read better:

"This is because the user now logs on to - for SSH - a different server..."