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With my RH7.1 system I created a new partition, then:

$ mount -t xfs /dev/hdc2 /mnt/a
$ cd /mnt/a
$ tar xvjpf ~/downloads/stage3...
$ chroot /mnt/a /bin/bash
$ env-update
$ . /etc/profile
$ emerge --clean rsync
$ nano -w /etc/make.conf   [to set up USE=]
$ nano -w /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask  [I want to try Gnome 2]
$ emerge -u -f world && nice emerge -u world
$ emerge -f gnome-base/gnome && nice emerge gnome-base/gnome

then built a kernel, as per the docs, rebooted, et voila! Ready to go.
If you run emerge under nice then your system stays useable for normal
work while the build goes on, and doing the 2 stage emerge (i.e. fetch
all then build means that you can work with a non always on connection).

Just add on any other apps that you need after installing Gnome (or
KDE).

Yours,
Ian.

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