Hello !!

Im interesting in trying Gentoo linux distro and have a question. Im trying to figure out which ISO's to download and I cant seem to find them. The only ones I found that I think are right are http://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/linux/gentoo/....0/stages/x86/. Is this right? The entire linux distro is only approx. 150Mb ???

I just want to get some re-assurance on this before I try to install this Thanks everyone!

Right now there is no live cd for Gentoo 2004 on anything except AMD64, unless you buy it that is. What I did was use a live cd from 1.4 that I had, then downloaded the stages(on the page you were looking at), once i had booted from the Live Cd and set up networking and all. Its pretty simple to do it this way, and you dont lose anything by not using a 2004 cd.
Check out the docs,
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml
they are really informative.
In section 5. Installing the Gentoo Installation Files, follow "5.b Downloading a Stage from the Internet"
If you want to use the 2.6 kernel, in Section 7. "Configuring the Kernel", you would type "emerge gentoo-dev-sources" to get the latest 2.6.x kernel..
Good luck, I just set up Gentoo 2004 on two pc's, and its great. Post if you have any problems.

Just to add to that - what you're doing with Gentoo is grabbing a minimal base system. The rest of the system will be downloaded over the net and compiled. So it's best to have broadband and a lot of time but, yeah, the *initial* installation-component of the distro is that small, but what you'll end up with will be larger.

Excellant.

So in reality, its just as big as the bigger distros (ie: Mandrake).

Ill check out the docs to install... I guess that would have been the best place to start Thanks to all for the input!

Will

I don't use Gentoo and don't know anything about 'em, however, isn't there a way to install the full thing without doing it over the internet, like you can with Mandrake and so on when you buy their boxed sets? If one bought Gentoo on CDs, would they need to still do a lot of the install via the net?

Thanks.

There's a way but it completely gets rid of the purpose of Gentoo. The point of Gentoo is to emerge from source and do everything by hand. However, there is a CD2 for a bunch of sources that installs crappy WMs like GNOME and KDE and then some commonly found software.