i want to install gentoo but i am not going through all that crap to install it again

apparently there is a beta installer around

any ideas where i can snap it up?

your kidding right? why would you want that? that defeats the entire pupose of installing gentoo in the first place. is it realy all that hard? it took me 1 day. only a little longer then the suse installer and I learned a bunch.

Vidalinux is Gentoo stage 3 and is very easy to install. Is that what you are after?

No it doesnt defeat any purpose what are babbling about?
Emerge/portage takes the complication out of compiling from source, making it as easy as using urpmi and other binary based package installers,

A script installer would not impede on your creativity of installing gentoo it's not a windows style no questions asked installer .

a variable which stage do you wish to install? 1 2 or 3
then which type of arch do you have? athlonxp 586 pentiumm etc
tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/stages/stage3-%arch%.tar.bz2

your installer should ask whether you want gen-kernel or gentoo-sources
if gentoo sources
the script will automatically input
cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig (here will have option to modify kernel settings); make && make install;


that is basically all any distro installer does anyways.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/



thankyou Xavier i'll see if Vidalinux isn't the exact thing i was after but i will try it

i hope it gives me an option to configure my kernel

sorry, i'm just saying it's not that hard and I like it the way it is.

vidalinux seems great so far.

quick to install stage3 files

and compiles the core files (crond syslog etc)



I left out gnome though

i'm using emerg to install xorg and kde

Screenshots here and current download here.

By the way, I used VidaLinux for a bit. It comes great out of the box but, for reasons unkown to me, portage was extremly broken when I went to upgrade packages.

it appears to be as the initial tree the vidalinux uses is a custom one, after i synced with gentoo portage it fixed it sorta. any program i install with emerge before hand has troubles.

but it still works

i'm a bit bummed though KDE 3.4.1 isnt available for selection yet it stuck me with 3.3

Create the file /etc/portage/package.keywords and put this in it;
then try
Whats it say?