Gentoo Documentation Resources

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Introduction

Welcome to the Gentoo Documentation Resources. This page will give you a quick overview on the documentation we provide. Most documentation is released under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license, an open documentation license. All documentation should also be available in a printer-friendly format. To view this document, append ?style=printable to the URL. You'll also find a "Print" link on the top-right corner of each document.

If you find bugs in our documentation or have proposals, please use our Bugtracking System and fill in a bug report for "Documentation" or "Doc Other". These bug reports will then be handled by the Gentoo Documentation Project.

Documentation Repository

Our documentation is categorized and hierarchically navigable. If you want a quick overview of all available documentation without the additional information, please use our Documentation Listing page. We also have a full listing of all our documents with their descriptions.

Installation Related Resources

Installation Guides

Gentoo Handbook: The Gentoo Handbook is an effort to centralise documentation into a coherent handbook. This handbook contains the installation instructions for internet-based installation approaches and parts about working with Gentoo and Portage.

Gentoo 2007.0 Networkless Handbook: The Gentoo 2007.0 Networkless Handbook is an effort to centralize documentation into a coherent handbook. It contains the networkless installation instructions for the 2007.0 release and parts on working with Gentoo and Portage.

Gentoo Linux x86 Quick Install Guide: The Quick install guide covers the Gentoo install process in a non-verbose manner. Its purpose is to allow users to perform a stage3 install in no time. Users should already have prior experience with installing Gentoo Linux if they want to follow this guide.

Gentoo Linux x86 with Software Raid and LVM2 Quick Install Guide: The Quick install guide covers the Gentoo install process in a non-verbose manner. Its purpose is to allow users to perform a stage3 install with software RAID and LVM2 in no time. Users should already have prior experience with installing Gentoo Linux if they want to follow this guide.

Gentoo Linux Sparc Quick Install Reference: The quick install reference covers all details of the sparc install process in a non-verbose manner. Users should already have prior experience with installing Gentoo Linux if they want to follow this guide.

A short guide to Gentoo/FreeBSD: This document gives some general information on FreeBSD, as well as installation instructions for Gentoo/FreeBSD. It also includes some reference for people interested in helping out with development.

Other Installation Related Documentation

The Gentoo Linux alternative installation method HOWTO: This HOWTO is meant to be a repository of alternative Gentoo installation methods, for those with special installation needs such as lack of a cdrom or a computer that can't boot cds.

Gentoo LVM2 installation: This guide describes how to setup your Gentoo machine using the Logical Volume Manager version 2 (LVM2).

Gentoo/x86 Installation Tips & Tricks: The Gentoo installation allows for very flexible approaches to the various installation methods. As it is almost impossible to insert every single tip or trick in the installation instructions this document tries to deal with all submitted tips and tricks for reference purposes.

Gentoo 1.4 Upgrade Guide: A method for upgrading older Gentoo installations in place to Gentoo 1.4

Gentoo Upgrading Guide: This document explains how new Gentoo releases affect existing installs.

The complete Gentoo Linux 2.6 migration guide: This document will aid you in the process of migrating from Linux 2.4 to Linux 2.6, devfs to udev, OSS to ALSA, and LVM to LVM2.

Gentoo Linux Genkernel Guide: This guide intends to provide a reference of all the functions provided by genkernel.

Gentoo/MIPS Linux Hardware Requirements: This document provides an overview of the status of various MIPS-based systems for installing Gentoo Linux. If you find errors or omissions please email the maintainer or an editor.

Gentoo Grub Error Collection: The objective of this error collection is to list the GRUB problems and errors people can be facing. All these solutions have been acquired through the cooperation of many users of the Gentoo Forums.

Gentoo Linux USB Guide: This document helps a user setup USB on a Gentoo system and configure various USB devices as well.

Gentoo Linux LiveUSB HOWTO: This HOWTO explains how to create a Gentoo Linux LiveUSB or, in other words, how to emulate an x86 or AMD64 Gentoo Linux LiveCD using a USB flash drive.