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submitted 1 year ago by H2207@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[-] spagnod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Hehe... I installed Gentoo last year and I was thrown in the deepest of deep ends after having to set up a custom initramfs for my LUKS setup... took about a week to get it running...

[-] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 0 points 1 year ago

what weirdness are you doing that Dracut can't handle it?

[-] spagnod@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I was too lazy to actually learn dracut, and I thought that setting up custom initramfs would help me gain insight into the linux boot process. Normal Gentoo stuff lol

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