Getting Started:

First thing you need to get is the most current Live CD and boot up Set a Root Passwrod and start SSH for remote setup:

• passwd
• /etc/init.d/sshd start

now you can SSH in the computer, this is a lot easier because you can just copy and past the commands.
Starting the Setup

Setting up Hard Drive Partitions:

• fdisk /dev/hda
  

      N, P, 1, Enter, +32M
      N, P, 2, Enter, +512M
      N, P, 3, Enter, Enter
      A, 1
      T, 2, 82
      W

• mke2fs /dev/hda1
• mke2fs -j /dev/hda3
• mkswap /dev/hda2
• swapon /dev/hda2
• mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
• mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
• mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot

Downloading Setup Files:

• date
• date MMDDhhmmYYYY
• cd /mnt/gentoo
• wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.bz2
• wget http://gentoo.osuosl.org/releases/x86/2008.0/stages/stage3-x86-2008.0.ta...
• tar -xjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2
• tar -xjf portage-*.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr

Getting into you Gentoo Install:

• mirrorselect -i -o >> /mnt/gentoo/etc/make.conf
• cp -L /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc/resolv.conf
• mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
• mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
• chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
• env-update
• source /etc/profile
• emerge --sync

Preparing for the Kernel:

• ln -snf /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 /etc/make.profile
• echo "USE=\"\"" >> /etc/make.conf
• cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/New_York /etc/localtime
• USE="-doc symlink" emerge gentoo-sources
• cd /usr/src/linux
• make menuconfig
• make && make modules_install
• cp arch//boot/bzImage /boot/kernel-2.6.23-r6

FStab:

• nano -w /etc/fstab
  

      #     
      /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
      /dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
      /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
      none /proc proc defaults 0 0
      none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
      /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
      shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0

Setting up network:

• nano -w /etc/conf.d/hostname
• rc-update add net.eth0 default

Final System Setup:

• passwd
• nano -w /etc/conf.d/clock
  

      CLOCK="local"
  

• emerge syslog-ng vixie-cron slocate dhcpcd ntp grub
• rc-update add syslog-ng default
• rc-update add vixie-cron default
• rc-update add ntp-client default

Setting up Grub:

• nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
  

  default 0
      timeout 10
      splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
  
      title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.23-r6 
      root (hd0,0)
      kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.23-r6  root=/dev/hda3

• grub
• grub> root (hd0,0)
• grub> setup (hd0)
• grub> quit

Rebooting:

• exit
• cd
• reboot
• Hope and Pary