Illustrated to teach you to install Gentoo Linux

Gentoo Linux is a special Linux distribution that can be automatically optimized and customized for any application and need. Gentoo has excellent performance, highly configurable and best-in-class users and http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/36661.html "> development community.

As a result of Portage technology, Gentoo Linux can serve as an ideal security server, development platform, professional desktop applications, game servers, embedded applications and other roles. Because of its unlimited configurable nature, we can even call Gentoo Linux a meta release.

If you've installed more than two different Linux packages and you've been in the middle of installing Linux and want to know about it, keep looking!!

Http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html (This is the installation instructions on the original website) the ISO file for the installation CD, please go to http://www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/releases/build/to obtain the Under the IX86 platform, there are two ISO files,

Basic Description:

1. Installation Start

First set the computer as the BIOS for the CD-ROM priority boot (how to set the details), after the CD boot, the screen as left

The original site that you must have more than 486 of the machine, and have 64MB of physical memory, preferably with a 64MB swap to use, of course, the speed of execution ..., hehe ~-_-!

2. System Detection

It is necessary to note that the network card and the relevant settings of the hard disk, if the use of SCSI hard drive (VMware can set the virtual system is SCSI or IDE's hard drive), after the loading of the module should pay special attention to

The system detects your host's devices (because it is a virtual machine that uses VMware, so some things will be different, some will be the same as your hardware, such as sound card, network card, etc. my network environment for the hi-building of China Telecom, is the use of private IP, network card is AMD PCnet32

3. Languages used by keyboards

The detection process will have a step to ask your keyboard to use the language of the family, generally we do not use the input, directly press ENTER can