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Installer
installer is designed to aid users during the installation process of Gentoo Linux. It is capable of walking a beginner user through the regular installation process following key topics from the Gentoo Handbook. It is ChrisADR's personal project, the official installer project is in charge of designing the official Gentoo installer.
Installation
installer is designed to be part of the Gentoo Live CD image, but it can also be installed via Portage.
Emerge
root #
emerge --ask app-admin/installer
Usage
Once inside the live environment, it is ready to begin an installation process from scratch via:
root #
installer beginner
You can also resume in a specific point of installation with:
root #
installer beginner -s N
root #
installer beginner --step N
Where N is a number between 1 and 11.
or
root #
installer beginner -t
root #
installer beginner --tui
installer can also be used by root to generate stageX tarball, which contains some configuration files that may help as backup configuration or in further installations, via:
root #
installer generate
Removal
Since installer will be only available by default in the live CD image, the only reason to unmerge installer is if you already installed it with Portage.
Unmerge
root #
emerge --ask --depclean app-admin/installer
See also
- Project:Installer — Official Installer Project for Gentoo Linux
External resources
- ChrisADR's guide of installer - a Blog post which describes installer functionalities.