The Gentoo Universal Installation CD

-The Gentoo Universal Installation CD +The Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD Introduction @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@

Gentoo Linux can be installed using a stage3 tarball file. Such a tarball is an archive that contains a minimal environment from -which you can succesfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system. +which you can successfully install Gentoo Linux onto your system.

@@ -74,11 +74,11 @@ -Gentoo Universal Installation CD +Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD

-An Installation CD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo +A LiveCD is a bootable medium which contains a self-sustained Gentoo environment. It allows you to boot Linux from the CD. During the boot process your hardware is detected and the appropriate drivers are loaded. The Gentoo Installation CDs are maintained by Gentoo developers. @@ -90,10 +90,11 @@

- The Universal Installation CD contains everything you need to install - Gentoo. It provides stage3 files for common architectures, source code - for the extra applications you need to choose from and, of course, the - installation instructions for your architecture. + The Installer LiveCD contains everything you need to install + Gentoo. It provides a graphical environment, a graphical as well as console + based installer which automatically carries out the installation for you, + source code for the extra applications you need to choose from, GRP + Packages and of course, the installation instructions for your architecture.
The Minimal Installation CD contains only a minimal environment that allows @@ -104,16 +105,12 @@

-Gentoo also provides a Package CD. This is not an Installation CD but an -additional resource that you can exploit during the installation of your Gentoo -system. It contains prebuilt packages (also known as the GRP set) that allow -you to easily and quickly install additional applications (such as -OpenOffice.org, KDE, GNOME, ...) immediately after the Gentoo installation and -right before you update your Portage tree. -

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-The use of the Package CD is covered later in this document. +The Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD also provides an additional resource that you +can exploit during the installation of your Gentoo system. It contains prebuilt +packages (also known as the GRP set) that allow you to easily and quickly +install additional applications (such as OpenOffice.org, GNOME, ...) +immediately after the Gentoo installation and right before you update your +Portage tree.

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-Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Universal Installation CD +Download, Burn and Boot the Gentoo Linux Installer LiveCD -Downloading and Burning the Installation CD +Downloading and Burning the Installer LiveCD

-You can download the Universal Installation CDs (and, if you want to, the -Packages CD as well) from one of our mirrors. The Installation CDs are located in -the releases/x86/2006.0/installcd directory; -the Package CDs are located in the releases/x86/2006.0/packagecd -directory. -

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-i686, athlon-xp, pentium3 and pentium4 Package CDs are available via -BitTorrent. +You can download the Installer LiveCDs from one of our mirrors. They are located in +the releases/x86/2006.0/livecd directory.

-Inside those directories you'll find ISO-files. Those are full CD images which +Inside that directory you'll find an ISO-file. That is a full CD image which you can write on a CD-R.

@@ -201,7 +190,7 @@ -Booting the Universal Installation CD +Booting the Installer LiveCD @@ -210,24 +199,23 @@

-Once you have burned your installation CD, it is time to boot it. -Remove all CDs from your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. -This is usually done by hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside -the BIOS, change the boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard -disk. This is often found under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system -will just reboot from the hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM. +Once you have burned your LiveCD, it is time to boot it. Remove all CDs from +your CD drives, reboot your system and enter the BIOS. This is usually done by +hitting DEL, F1 or ESC, depending on your BIOS. Inside the BIOS, change the +boot order so that the CD-ROM is tried before the hard disk. This is often found +under "CMOS Setup". If you don't do this, your system will just reboot from the +hard disk, ignoring the CD-ROM.

-Now place the installation CD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You -should see a boot prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the -boot process with the default boot options, or boot the Installation CD with -custom boot options by specifying a kernel followed by boot options and then -hitting Enter. +Now place the LiveCD in the CD-ROM drive and reboot. You should see a boot +prompt. At this screen, you can hit Enter to begin the boot process with the +default boot options, or boot the LiveCD with custom boot options by specifying +a kernel followed by boot options and then hitting Enter.

-Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our Installation CDs. +Specifying a kernel? Yes, we provide several kernels on our LiveCD. The default one is gentoo. Other kernels are for specific hardware needs and the -nofb variants which disable framebuffer.

@@ -300,11 +288,12 @@ installing Gentoo on a system with a non-US keyboard, make sure you immediately press Alt-F1 to switch to verbose mode and follow the prompt. If no selection is made in 10 seconds the default (US keyboard) will be accepted and -the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, you will be -automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as -"root", the super user. You should have a root ("#") prompt -on the current console and can also switch to other consoles by pressing Alt-F2, -Alt-F3 and Alt-F4. Get back to the one you started on by pressing Alt-F1. +the boot process will continue. Once the boot process completes, Gnome will start +up and you will be automatically logged in to the "Live" Gentoo Linux as +"gentoo" in graphical mode. You will be logged in as "root", the superuser on +the other consoles and should have a root ("#") prompt there. You can switch to +those consoles by pressing Alt-F2, Alt-F3, Alt-F4 Alt-F5, Alt-F6. Get back to +the graphical desktop you started on by pressing Alt-F7.

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-When the Installation CD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and +When the LiveCD boots, it tries to detect all your hardware devices and loads the appropriate kernel modules to support your hardware. In the vast majority of cases, it does a very good job. However, in some cases, it may not auto-load the kernel modules you need. If the PCI auto-detection -- gentoo-doc-cvs@gentoo.org mailing list