The Gentoo Linux Installation Guide | Part 3

In the third and final part of the Gentoo Linux installation guide I show you how to get the cinnamon desktop environment, setting up a user, and finalizing you installation of Gentoo Linux.
Info
DOWNLOAD GENTOO - www.gentoo.org...
IMPORTANT RESOURCE - wiki.gentoo.or...
Twitter: / antouns17
Facebook: / antoun.sawires
Thanks For Watching!

[@Faunarr]

when his vm is faster than your i7 laptop

[@dhanarsantika]

r/whoosh

[@robogamer1921]

What gen(your i7)?

[@JereHakala]

Duck yeah, finally got Gentoo to boot on like 5th attempt, always failed at grub install because I was trying to mess around with EFI, thank you for this guide :D

[@jeandelinux259]

Gnome needs systemd to work

[@jairoquintanilla3553]

Thanks for your tutorial. It's an amazing guide to install this beautiful distribution.

[@lebh88]

I think you skiped a point before the startx that you need to install the xf86-video-vesa or xf86-video-virtualbox to be able to startx, I saw that you had installed it when you were going back in commands typed, I might be wrong but after I did that, I was able to startx before I got errors

[@zastiv1700]

this is what i'm looking for, thanks! EDIT: nope, still getting error

[@FernandoJaccoud]

thanks man! that solved the errors that i got

[@klypnotic]

when i did grub2-install /dev/sda i get an error saying bash: grub2-install: command not found EDIT: sooo i removed the 2 from grub and it worked fine... i reboot it and i got to login...is taht fine?

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

That's fine. They renamed the executable, that's all.

[@dusoklimo3437]

same here, actually the handbook lists the new command without '2'

[@mrvbalazs]

grub-install /dev/sda

[@sergiobeltrao]

Finally I made it thank you! Btw take me almost 8 hours to emerge Cinnamon lol.

[@-arisu]

This is a pretty good series. Though, I hope that in a future video you cover the -march=native CFLAG and the MAKEOPTS="-jX". I talked about them in a comment on your "What is Gentoo Linux?" video in greater detail. Awesome video and keep up the good work.

[@juliahuber8899]

when I try to add consolekit to default (it´s the rc-update add consolekit default command in 15:07), it says 'consolekit' does not exist, although I put it in the USE-variable of the /etc/portage/make.conf file. Any recommendations?

[@zastiv1700]

i've done it until emerge xorg-server, emerge xterm, and anything as the video said above, but why the hell i'm getting error when i'm opened startx? xauth: file /root/.serverauth.xxxxx does not exist etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc: line 3: /usr/bin/X: No such file or directory xinit: giving up xinit: unable to connect to X server: Connection refused xinit: server error i've googling for solutions and none of them worked to me, maybe because i installed it on vmware?

[@HausToys]

hi when should i remove the bootable usb? after my laptop reboot or while my laptop is rebooting? please reply

[@mystified1234]

Again A FANTASTIC Tutorial ! 10+++++++

[@tristanbatchler]

Holy crap you did not prepare me for how long Cinnamon would take to compile.

[@tristanbatchler]

But finally finished and now I have the Cinnamon desktop! Yay

[@AntounSawires]

I know. I'm sorry that's the thing with Gentoo nothing is quick.I'm glad it worked!

[@tristanbatchler]

Yeah, loving it haha. Although I did have an issue and I'm not sure if it's my fault, but I''ve managed to fix it if anyone else is having the same issue. When I'm logged in as my user account (not root) and type startx, I get the default X window manager (the three terminals). It works fine for root, but not for a normal user. All you have to do is create a file in the user's ~ directory (located in /home/username) called .xinitrc The file should have 'exec cinnamon-session' inside. Now next time you use startx as a user it should take you to the Cinnamon DE.

[@timandmoby10]

Just as a side-note, try out some of the tiling window managers like Xmonad, Awesome, or i3. They're waaaaay lighter than Cinnamon (and therefore take less time to compile, of course) and I believe match the diy/ultra configurable style of Gentoo quite nicely.

[@zastiv1700]

i've done emerge xorg and xterm, but when i try to attempt startx, it says bash: startx: command not found gentoo. what should i do? i'm also using vmware to install this

[@patterson167]

Ok, I installed Gentoo in VirtualBox, the internet works perfectly but I do not know if that will be the case when I try to install Gentoo as the main system on my hard drive.

[@Faunarr]

I decided to install kde and waited 12 hours for set 8 profile to compile and finished installing grub, how do I install kde plasma? or you can just tell to look on the wiki

[@Faunarr]

also grub takes a shitload of time to compile

[@Faunarr]

+kuba zrobczynski also 2 things 1 wpuldnt lilo be quicker to compile than grub, and 2 why don't you make a video with all these videos merged so its easier to access

[@Faunarr]

+kuba zrobczynski also I prefer wicd over network manager

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

On VMWare, after reboot the name of my network interface changed to something completely different. After fixing the init.d script and the conf.d/net file, it worked.

[@nickoct7472]

I heard you need systemd when using Gnome and I though you were using openrc that's probably the reason you can't emerge gnome properly. Although I use Arch Linux which comes with systemd as the only option so maybe i'm wrong.

[@Krashevil]

you should do a tutorial for configuring GRUB with a UEFI system. I've tried every online source and i just cant get it to work

[@jonathonpoppleton4273]

1. Mount EFI Partition: gentoo: mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo/boot/efi mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot/efi 2. Install grub UEFI: emerge --ask --verbose sys-boot/grub:2 grub-install /dev/sda grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot You will need to add the EFI partition to the fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2

[@griiiinless]

@@jonathonpoppleton4273 Still not working for me. I give up. 🤷😢

[@tomasramirezthemythtoon]

Hello! I never installed gentoo, I always wanted to give it a try but the installer scared me. Yesterday I started to read everything in the installation handbook and at first it seems easy, but I forgot that my Notebook does not have a wlan xD port Create my bootable USB, boot it, and pond me where configuring the network would be. but in handboook he does not explain what to do next to connect to my modem and thus access the internet. It's possible ? I missed a step? To simplify it: I want to configure my network and then connect to my WiFi modem to follow the installation. It's possible? Do I forget any detail of the handbook? Thank you for your patience !

[@marcosdanieltorres7253]

I know it's been 5 months since you posted this. But I'm giving my notebook internet through my phone, which is connected to my house's wifi, with USB tethering. When I'm done with the Gentoo installation I think would be able to enable wifi from the desktop but I'm not sure yet. This is the fifth time I'm trying to install Gentoo because the last 4 times I was trying EFI + GPT and I couldn't get it to work

[@mrvbalazs]

Thanks for help! Youve got +1 sub! Many thanks for many help!

[@xWe2s]

Just `umount -R /mnt` (or /mnt/gentoo) it's a standard thing, not gentoo specific.

[@900yass]

Thank you a lot, appreciated.

[@Philipp.H0210]

ping doesn't work for me after the reboot, it says: ping: unknown host www.google.com. How can I change these settings afterwards?

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

Check your network devices. For me the device name changed after reboot.

[@crapi4got]

Everything was going smoothly until grub2-install -- the command was not found. I was in (chroot) livecd /#. Help appreciated thanks.

[@kev573]

try grub-install instead

[@xZockusx]

Kev Do you know the reason why this is? Thanks a lot, should work for me now

[@ruadeil_zabelin]

They just renamed the executable name that's all. It's still grub2.

[@BenTheMiller]

Foost

[@j-sagarino]

no network connection. How can I fix this? I am using hyper-V Much appreciated

[@dusoklimo3437]

Thanks sir. asking abou issues? since ive been doing it in my spare time over 2 evenings i almost forgot my f*ckin root pw! :)

[@AlexHex14]

Ok so xOrg was blocked for me in a virtualbox amd64 install if you have this problem this is how i fixed it (27-07-2017): + I had to make sure these were all in the same version. # emerge --ask =app-emulation/virtualbox-5.1.22-r1 # emerge --ask =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.22 # emerge --ask =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.22 # emerge --ask =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-5.1.22 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + You can run one command and it will tell you that a config file needs updating you can use the command: # etc-update + after the merge just run the commnad again ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OR ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~ + Add these to the "/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords" file: =app-emulation/virtualbox-5.1.22-r1 ~amd64 =app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions-5.1.22 ~amd64 =x11-drivers/xf86-video-virtualbox-5.1.22 ~amd64 =app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-5.1.22 ~amd64 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- + Besides the one above I also appear to have installed `virtualbox-additions` same process as above but I dont know if it is required or I just installed it by mistake. + And only after that i was able to install xorg and xterm like in the example: # emerge xorg-server # emerge xterm

[@GameReviews18904]

For some reason when i go to startx it says server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.

[@-arisu]

Have you made a .xinitrc? If so what is in it exactly? Are you logged in as your user?

[@GameReviews18904]

+jclinux i have a .xinitrc and it has xterm written in it I'm on root since i haven't made a user yet.

[@-arisu]

You need to have "exec xterm" in your .xinitrc (without quotes). If it still doesn't work then try making a user, then once you're logged in enter this command... echo "exec xterm" >> .xinitrc Then try to startx again. Now if that doesn't work could you try telling what some of the errors are in the log. (When you look at the log it should tell you what is an error. II EE or something like that)

[@GameReviews18904]

+jclinux I put exec in front of xterm and that doesn't work so i made a user and wrote the command and that didn't work either here are the EEs fatal server error, no screens found, Please consult the the x.org foundation support, Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information, server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. I also these if the help. Xinit: giving up. Xinit: unable to connect to x server : connection refused. Xinit: server error. Thats all it shows me hopefully these help in any way.

[@-arisu]

What happens when you run this startx /usr/bin/xterm Also, do you think you can give me the output of this: lspci -v | grep VGA Are you running a VM? I'm starting to think that it may be the drivers or x.

[@aaronhughes4199]

I failed SOOOO bad. Using a virtual machine aswell