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NetworkManager

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I was looking into this again and was wondering if we should replace the wireless setting with NetworkManager as that's how I normally teach people rather than getting into messy wpasupplicant stuff however wanted your views before making the change.

As you may know, I just copied this article from an existing one, and I didn't want to change too much. I welcome any improvement though, maybe it should be discussed with @sam and/or @oldfashionedcow ? -- Pietinger 13:00, 10 April 2024 (UTC)

Question on the ordering of the command screenshots

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Pietinger, great work. I have one suggestion for the rewrite of this page.

I am currently installing Gentoo for the first time, been a system admin for over 10 years on an Ubuntu based system and wanted to see what Gentoo can offer.

My issue is the way the steps for performing the disk partitioning are currently grouped. It seems to have each step documented and then to have either the BIOS or EUFI option in the step. I am finding it difficult to keep a flow going and have actually performed a BIOS step when I am trying to install on a EUFI system :(

My suggestion to make the page more "usable" would be to change the order to have a BIOS section covering the all the partitioning steps THEN a EUFI section with all its steps. That way the installer is not flicking between the different options in the steps as their concentration is moved to the keyboard on the system being installed.

Just my $0.02

Cheers Jim

JimPye007 (talk) 04:42, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry but I don't understand your objection. This “quick” script does not deal with the installation for a BIOS boot - it only does a UEFI boot. See also this line: echo ‘GRUB_PLATFORMS=”efi-64“’ >> /etc/portage/make.conf. I only inserted an “OR” for the two different types of harddisks (SCSI/SSDs OR NVMe) - but both times the partitioning is done for a UEFI boot (Partition 1 is the EfiSystemPartition ESP). Did you just confuse this with the options in our AMD64 manual? -- Pietinger 11:48, 25 January 2025 (UTC)

My Experience Using this Guide

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Hello, first of all thank you for making this streamlined install guide. I was able to successfully install Gentoo using this guide, but I ran into a few hiccups along the way so I thought I'd inform you of them to hopefully help improve the guide.

01. When partitioning the disks with parted, I ran into an invalid token error on the "mkpart" commands. Looking at the official parted documentation (https://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_node/mkpart.html), it seems that if you are using a gpt partiation table then you do not need to set the partition type as primary/logical etc, so it takes primary as the partition name and then our actual name (ESP/Swap/Root etc) is an invalid token. I fixed this by simply omitting primary from the commands and partitioning worked.

02. When running chronyd -q, I ran into a fatal error, and it said another chronyd may already be running. I did not care to sync the time though so I just proceeded with the installation without figuring that one out, and things worked out fine.

03. Arch-chroot was not present on my system, so I had to emerge it.

Other than that every command worked perfectly and I'm typing this from my freshly installed Gentoo system now!

SirRedEdge (talk) 18:18, 31 January 2025 (UTC)

Thank you for your feedback ... and no, I did not write the article ... just copied it and edited it a bit. ;-) To your 3 points:

I have just changed number 1. :-)

Regarding number 3, I strongly suspect that you did not use our gentooCD (because these have “arch-root”).

Possibly number 2 didn't work for you because you booted with another distribution that started chronyd as daemon. If this is not the case, our AMD64 Handbook also needs to be updated, as it is still documented there: Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Stage#Automatic

BTW: If you haven't already done so, I always recommend registering in our forum ;-)

Pietinger 19:15, 31 January 2025 (UTC)