Installing Gentoo with SystemD and BTRFS Subvolumes

[@Jorge-xf9gs]

This is incredibly helpful, I couldn't figure out how BTRFS works. Now I see it clearly. Thank you very much.

[@linuxtechgeek]

That`s awesome. Glad it helped

[@henninb]

As an active gentoo user I am appreciate this video. I relied on a similar video to get my gentoo system running with systemd. Thank you for sharing your knowledge on the topic.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Glad it could help

[@dusanalic1686]

Thank you. I like your way of presentation.

[@fabriziot1467]

When you published your awesome video about how to install gentoo step by step you ispired me so i have done exactly everything you are doing in this one. That's funny! I would have expected hours and hors compiling software but it get me half day to emerge all the system whit KDE almost complete from scratch. Thank you so much and keep pushing this contents. 👍

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah it really doesn’t take that long, glad it helped

[@crystalchaos462]

I really wish the Gentoo handbook had separated the OpenRC and Systemd instructions into different sections, rather than both at the same time. I can see you understand this process and even you get tripped up a few times trying to figure out which commands you need to run.

[@linuxtechgeek]

I actually 100% agree with this... it would make the instructions more clear

[@RoughGanome]

Thank you for the video! With your help, I was able to install LUKS with LVM and BTRFS.

[@degastar]

Thanks man, will be trying this on my main machine soon. Do you know if these subvol configs work with say, Timeshift for example to get backups going?

[@linuxtechgeek]

not sure about time shift but there is a btrfs program that does work with it... can`t remember the name

[@degastar]

@@linuxtechgeek If you remember, please let me know.

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@degastar look up snapper... I believe thats the name

[@linuxtechgeek]

wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Snapper

[@degastar]

@@linuxtechgeek Might give that a shot at some point but Timeshift from the guru overlay seems to be working for now.

[@Vulto166]

I just installed gentoo via install script after several failures following the official handbook. God i hate the way they organized that install guide. I'm thinking about follow your video tutorial, it looks much easier to understand. Thank you.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Well thanks, but to be honest. I followed the handbook damn near to a T, but i`ve also installed it close to 50 times so I kind of know what to do. You may be more of a visual learner so watching some one do it vs. you reading a manual might be the way to go. Good Luck

[@StormOS_Dev_Channel]

Wow Chris this is a new one

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yea I’m trying to put out new stuff

[@RobMonette]

You can also chroot from another linux distro like arch or even another gentoo. I did my gentoo installation with arch very useful by the way, you can have your handbook beside your installation (terminal) . Beside that thanks for your vid!

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yep, I think I mentioned that in the video

[@linuxtechgeek]

Good tip though

[@RobMonette]

@@linuxtechgeek ok must have missed it !

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@RobMonette yeah I think I mentioned it when talking about mounting stuff if I’m not mistaken

[@BotYoutubevertification]

Do you need systemd use flag for systemd install?

[@linuxtechgeek]

Im pretty sure you want it

[@BotYoutubevertification]

@@linuxtechgeek My big error was in the fstab file where I put unmount=0077 instead of umount=0077. But yeah I used that use flag and it worked fine

[@bogartwilley]

Here's a tip for your fontsize: Record in 720p, and use handbrake to upscale the footage after the fact. Things will be big enough we can read it, without KZbin screwing over your quality.

[@robertothiella6882]

Hi Chris, I installed accordig to your guide but when I rebooted the Grub window has only the *UEFI Firmware Settings. What I did somewhere is wrong. What can I do?

[@linuxtechgeek]

Sounds like you don’t have a kernel image in /boot

[@linuxtechgeek]

Because a kernel image should have been picked up when you did a grub-mkconfig

[@robertothiella6882]

Is my option to restart from the very beginning?@@linuxtechgeek

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@robertothiella6882 no, you could boot into the bootable iso then mount your hard drive and chroot in like you did during the install and either make sure a kernel img is in /boot or make sure you installed a kernel to begin with

[@robertothiella6882]

O.K. I'm going to try. Many thanks.@@linuxtechgeek

[@10leej]

Im a systemd loving btrfs gentoo enthusiast, i dont get the comments hate for it.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Haters gonna hate

[@biutifo1201]

should choose mergdusr

[@liquidmobius]

Installing Gentoo with systemd? 😱 blasphemy! I'm kidding man lol, well sort of

[@linuxtechgeek]

Right. I wouldn’t personally run systemd on gentoo but it’s possible lol

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

Systemd is just unnecessary bloat in an otherwise sleek and efficient Gentoo Linux build. Openrc works fine and is entirely logical in how it works, there's no reason to use anything else - and I speak as a Gentoo veteran who has used it as his main OS since 2003.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Well I happen to agree but there are people that like and use systemd so the video was meant to show them how they can use it on Gentoo if they please

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@linuxtechgeek Accepted and I did watch the video because I work on Red Hat Linux systems in my day job which, of course, uses systemd - so I know how to administer it, only because I get paid to do it, not because I like it.