Before starting to download the new 2006.0 package, I was wondering if anyone knows whether the minimal/install CD of gentoo linux contains the nice gui installer interface. I want to install gentoo on my other hard disk :) If not, does the LiveCD have the gui installer? I need it for a x86. Thanks!

Maybe I'm doing it wrong but I've never used a GUI installer for gentoo....that's the penalty of building everything from source. Perhaps something along the lines of kororaa would be better, it's gentoo based but has been made easier to install. You can always still do a "emerge -NuDave world" to recompile EVERYTHING...and it has xorg7 and XGL! :) http://kororaa.org/

urk, I tried compiling from the source, but it's just too much reading. And at the end all I got was a broken installation, because the power went out right in the middle :( Don't get me wrong, but if that gui makes it easier then I'd prefer a gui instead of 24-hour reading. You mean there's no gui installer in the 2006.0 gentoo?

About koronaa, the thing is that I've never heard of it:\ And I don't trust something unless a friend of mine uses it for 1+ years. I'll try the irc chat on freenode, maybe they can help heh.

If you can't work through the manual installation, you probably won't be able to maintain and upgrade it once you get it installed. All that reading teaches you the basics of Gentoo while you install. If the power goes out, the installation can be easily rescued. Mount your filesystems under /mnt/gentoo, repeat the steps for chrooting, and continue where you left off. If you were doing an emerge, you can even do "emerge --resume".

Reading through the installation documentation whilst stuff is compiling will seriously help you out further down the line when managing the system as you will learn a lot about how both gentoo and GNU/Linux works. If you want a GUI installer then perhaps gentoo isn't for you. Have you thought of trying something like ubuntu? Kororaa is pretty new and I don't think it's been around for a year yet! They have a live CD that you can try, it is still in beta though. From the Kororaa website: {SNIP} What's the point of it? I must state that I adore the manual Gentoo way of installing. In fact, I swore against an installer for Gentoo for a long time and this stance has not really changed. What I wanted however was a way to quickly re-produce a desktop installation for multiple machines. I also wanted a tool that I could give to friends who liked the idea of Gentoo but complained about the “compile time”. I don't think that missing out on the Gentoo experience because of “compile time” is valid and so I wanted a way to introduce my friends to Gentoo without having to build their systems myself. I cannot more strongly recommend the Gentoo install method if you are serious about learning both Gentoo and GNU/Linux in general. I owe Gentoo a lot – I played with Redhat* back in 1998 (thanks to Andrew Tridgell) but then fell into "RPM hell" and went around from distro to distro in a mad seething rage of desperation. Then I came across Gentoo 1.1 and it was love at first install. So, if you're someone who doesn't want to wait to get a nicely configured Gentoo system, is so afraid of the standard install method that it's stopping you from trying Gentoo at all, or you're a lazy pig then this method is for you! Note: You can use our stage3, portage snapshot and packages together with the standard Gentoo “Stage3 GRP” install if you want to try it that way too! {/SNIP}

Hm.. ok, I'll give it another shot a bit later. Thanks :)