Well, actually the Live CD/DVD is complete crap when it comes to "easy installing" bringing grief to lots of potential users. Which is pretty weird, considering "the other Gentoo"* has a Live CD that actually works as intended to bring in newbie type users. On the other hand I don't see why a distribution like Gentoo should target newbie users. What was actually wrong with a slightly elitist approach in stage 1-2 cli installations? The semi newbie could use a stage 3 cli installation routine.
Actually I started to think that the Live CD, ditching the stage 1-2 from the main documentation is not understanding what many feel Gentoo is. It's *not* the Mandrivalike-works-straight-of-the-box distribution. It shouldn't be shoe horned into something it isn't.