Old Fashioned Gentoo Install

This document describes how to install Gentoo without the hand holding automation features that users have come to take for granted over the last 10 years.

Synopsis
Its possible to start with the offical stage3 files. This has only been tested on an amd64/no-multilib install.

As this document is aimed at users with at least one Gentoo install to their credit, it is not a keystroke by keystroke guide, unlike the Handbook. The handbook steps are not repeated here, there is just some general references to it f$

Overview
The steps are:-
 * partition the target drive following the handbook
 * install the stage3 tarball
 * install the portage snapshot
 * set up package.mask to keep out unwanted junk
 * set up global USE flags to be consistant with package.mask
 * replace udev with sys-fs/static-dev
 * follow the handbook to install cron, a logger and a bootloader of your choice
 * Install a kernel
 * configure grub
 * review and edit configuaition settings
 * reboot to test

Introduction
This document describes how to install Gentoo with a static /dev using the packages from a stage3 tarball

What You Get

A modern gentoo base system but without all the bells and whistles added in recent years. Olde Fashioned Gentooee is more about what you don't get. You dont get


 * udev - you get a static dev
 * systemd - why would you want it anyway
 * pulseaudio - I've not known this to actually add anything
 * hotplug support
 * auto mounting of any sort - use mount by label
 * auto module loading
 * device detection in Xorg

Separate /usr should just work as there is no udev to require that /usr is mounted before udev starts. If udev starts on your box you have done someting wrong. Separate /usr is not tested as I'm using lvm on top of raid5, so while my /$

Access to the Gentoo Handbook is required as this guide makes frequent references to it, there is no point in repeating the handbook here.