On 29/01/14 02:06, James wrote:
I'm interested in aggregating tips, tricks, ebuild suggestions and config
file snippets and examples, related to going minimal on your system,
regardless if your system in resource constrained or not. The benefit
is not limited to resource constrained systems.
The idea is when a person ditches KDE (or other bloated environments?)
they can look at a single gentoo-specific document to get a list of
addtional ebuilds and config files to install resulting in but one possible
fast, cool, feature-rich minimal environment. with a mininmal of setup time
and effort.
If you are uncomfortable posting here, just drop me some private
email.
TIA,
James
# These instructions are for installing Gentoo on Oracle VirtualBox with
# Oracle VirtualBox Extentions installed on the host PC.
# I allocate 1GB during intallation and change to 512KB after competing
the installation.
# I can still work with 255 KB but slow.
# My local setup is a LAN with several Linux and Win$ boxes with fixed
IP addresses.
# My local domain name: "itw.lan"
# My Gentoo VM FQDN: "gentoo.itw.lan"
# IP address: 192.168.0.32
# Nameserver-1: 192.168.0.2
# Nameserver-2: 192.168.0.1 (my Router has a very basic build in Name
Server.)
# Route: 192.168.0.1
# Locale Australia/Brisbane
# Change these at the approbriate places in below text to yours.
# The text without "#" in front are commands to be entered or copied into
# the terminal followed by hitting the Enter Key.
# Preparation:
# Download Gentoo Install CD from:
#
distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-iso/install-amd64-minimal-20140130.iso
# Configure a Gentoo x86_64 virtual maschine to boot with Gentoo CD.iso
as CD Drive,
# a virtual 30GB dard drive and Network Adapter as "Bridged Adapter ".
# Boot your new virtual maschine with kernel option "net.ifnames=0".
## type on Gentoo Installer Screen
ifconfig
# write down the IP address and name of your ethernet card like "eth0"
net-setup eth0 #For manual setup if your Router does not have a DHCP
server.
# Create a password for ssh access.
passwd
abc123
abc123
time /etc/init.d/sshd start
ping -c 3 google.com
# This completes configiration of the installation system for ssh access
from a second PC.
# --------------------------------------------
# Open a terminal on your second or Host PC and log by ssh into Gentoo
ssh r...@gentoo.itw.lan
abc123
# Manally, step by step partition your Hard drive with these keybord
commands:
# If you make a mistake, exit fdisk by 'q' and start again.
fdisk /dev/sda
n
p
1
(Enter)
+500M
n
e
2
(Enter)
(Enter)
n
l
(Enter)
+2G
(Enter)
t
5
82
n
l
(Enter)
+20G
n
l
(Enter)
(Enter)
a
1
p
w
# DONE!
# ----------------------------------------------
# Now proceed by copying below texts to your terminal followed by Enter.
# You can copy line by line, section by section or several saections at
a time
#-----------------------------------------------
# Create the File System:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda6
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda7
mkswap /dev/sda5
swapon /dev/sda5
# Mount the Filesystem:
mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/gentoo/home
# Check the date
date
# Get Gentoo files from the internet
cd /mnt/gentoo
links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml
# Select and download stage3....tar.bz2
ls -l
tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2
# Change Root
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
source /etc/profile
export PS1="gentoo.itw.lan $PS1"
#Set root Password
passwd root
abc123
abc123
# Configure make.conf:
echo "CFLAGS=\"-O2 -march=native -pipe\"" > /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "CXXFLAGS=\"${CFLAGS}\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
# Change "-j5" to the numbe rof your processors plus 1.
echo "MAKEOPTS=\"-j2\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "FEATURES=\"-preserve-libs\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "CHOST=\"x86_64-pc-linux-gnu\"" >> /etc/portage/make.cof
echo "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=\"amd64\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "ACCEPT_LICENSE=\"*\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "LINGUAS=\"en\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "INPUT_DEVISES=\"evdev virtualbox\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "VIDEO_CARDS=\"vesa\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "USE_PYTHON=\"2.7\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
echo "PYTHON_TARGETS=\"python2_7\"" >> /etc/portage/make.conf
# change "http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo\"; to you mirror
echo "GENTOO_MIRRORS=\"http://ftp.swin.edu.au/gentoo\""; >>
/etc/portage/make.conf
# change "rsync://rsync1.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage\"
echo "SYNC=\"rsync://rsync1.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage\"" >>
/etc/portage/make.conf
# Create package.* files
echo "### package.keywords ###" > /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "### package.unmask ###" > /etc/portage/package.unmask
echo "### package.mask ###" > /etc/portage/package.mask
# Select Timezone
emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data
# Replace "Australia/Brisbane" with your Timezone and Location
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime
echo "Australia/Brisbane" > /etc/timezone
date
# Copy DNS information
# Replace "itw.lan" with your domain name
echo "domain itw.lan" > /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.2" >> /etc/resolv.conf
echo "nameserver 192.168.0.1" >> /etc/resolv.conf
# Configure Portage
emerge-webrsync
emerge --sync
emerge --oneshot portage
# Read IMPORTANT News
eselect news read
# Select Profile. We list and use Desktop (3) or Gnome (4)
eselect profile list
# for Xfce Desktop
# eselect profile set 3
echo "### package.use ###" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "dev-util/cmake -qt4" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "app-text/poppler -qt4" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "x11-base/xorg-server udev" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "gnome-base/gvfs -http" >> /etc/portage/package.use
# If you use Samba:
echo "net-fs/samba swat" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "xfce-base/thunar gvfs samba" >> /etc/portage/package.use
# You may have to change the version numbers.
echo ">=media-libs/gd-2.0.35-r3 fontconfig" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "=dev-lang/python-2.7.5-r3 sqlite" >> /etc/portage/package.use
echo "### package.keywords ###" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# required by net-dns/dnssec-tools-2.0-r1
# required by app-admin/webmin-1.660
# required by webmin (argument)
echo "=dev-perl/Getopt-GUI-Long-0.930.0 ~amd64" >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "# required by webmin (argument)" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "=app-admin/webmin-1.660 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "# required by app-admin/webmin-1.660" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "# required by webmin (argument)" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "=dev-perl/Authen-Libwrap-0.220.0 ~amd64" >>
/etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "# required by app-admin/webmin-1.660" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "# required by webmin (argument)" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
echo "=net-dns/dnssec-tools-2.0-r1 ~amd64" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
# Specify your locale. (change to yours)
echo "en_AU ISO-8859-1" >> /etc/locale.gen
echo "en_AU.UTF-8 UTF-8" >> /etc/locale.gen
locale-gen
echo "LANG=\"en_AU.UTF-8\"" > /etc/env.d/02locale
echo "LC_COLLATE=\"C\"" >> /etc/env.d/02locale
env-update && source /etc/profile
# Install Kernel Sources
emerge gentoo-sources
ls -l /usr/src/linux
# Use General Kernel and/or modify Kernel Configuration
emerge genkernel
genkernel all
# Verify Kernel installation
ls /boot/kernel* /boot/initramfs*
# Create /etc/fstab
# nano -w /etc/fstab
echo "# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts>
<dump/pass>" > /etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sda1 /boot ext4 noauto,noatime 1 2" >>
/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sda6 / ext4 noatime 0 1" >>
/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sda7 /home ext4 noatime 0 2" >>
/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0" >>
/etc/fstab
echo "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0" >>
/etc/fstab
echo "# /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0" >>
/etc/fstab
# Configure networking
cd /etc/conf.d
echo 'hostname="gentoo"' > hostname
hostname gentoo
hostname -f
# Change 192.168.0.32 to your fixed IP address previously written down
echo 'config_eth0="192.168.0.32 netmask 255.255.255.0 brd
192.168.0.255"' > net
echo 'routes_eth0="default via 192.168.0.1"' >> net
# Adding net.eth0 to the default runlevel
cd /etc/init.d
ln -s net.lo net.eth0
rc-update add net.eth0 default
# Filling in the networking information
cd /etc
echo "127.0.0.1 gentoo.itw.lan gentoo localhost" > /etc/hosts
# Change 192.168.0.32 to your fixed IP address previously written down
echo "192.168.0.32 gentoo.itw.lan gentoo" >> /etc/hosts
# Setting the root password
passwd
abc123
abc123
# Install a syslogger, a cron daemon, mc and sshd
emerge syslog-ng vixie-cron
rc-update add syslog-ng default
rc-update add vixie-cron default
rc-update add sshd default
env-update && source /etc/profile
emerge mlocate
emerge app-misc/mc
emerge gentoolkit
emerge app-admin/eclean-kernel
emerge app-portage/diffmask
emerge app-portage/flaggie
emerge app-portage/install-mask
emerge app-portage/portpeek
emerge app-portage/smart-live-rebuild
# Emerge grub and edit its configuration file
emerge grub
mkdir /boot/grub
ls -l /boot/*
# Write down the kernel and initramfs full file names and versions
# nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "default 0" > /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "timeout 10" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Change "3.10.17" to your kernel version
echo "title Gentoo Linux 3.10.17" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "root (hd0,0)" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Change the kernel and initramfs filenames to your full name and versions
echo "kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.17-gentoo net.ifnames=0
root=/dev/ram0 real_root=/dev/sda6" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "initrd /boot/initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-3.10.17-gentoo" >>
/boot/grub/grub.conf
echo "" >> /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Install grub
grub --no-floppy
# grub> root (hd0,0)
# grub> setup (hd0)
# grub> quit
# Add your username
useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,CD -s /bin/bash username
passwd
abc123
abc123
# Poweroff
exit
umount -l /mnt/gentoo/dev{/shm,/pts,}
umount -l /mnt/gentoo{/proc,/boot,/home,/sys,}
poweroff
# ----------------------------------------
# End of basic installation
# ----------------------------------------
# Remove the Gentoo CD
# This completes the installation of the Base System.
# Boot your Gentoo VM, log in with your username, ping google.com to
verify that it works.
# Then login as root from your workstation terminal.
Change directory to /
cd /
# Install X
emerge xorg-server
env-update
source /etc/profile
# Install Xfce
emerge xfce
env-update && source /etc/profile
/etc/init.d/dbus start
rc-update add dbus default
rc-update add xdm default
# Editing /etc/conf.d/xdm
nano -wc /etc/conf.d/xdm
DISPLAYMANAGER="slim"
# Optionally install Samba
emerge net-fs/samba
emerge net-print/hplip
#-------------------------------------
# End of Xfce installation
# ------------------------------------
reboot
# if all is well, you should now see the Slim login screen
# Login as root
# emerge your favorite Xfce and other applications like:
# porthole
# leafpad
# midori
# claws mail
# webmin
# avoid Gnome and KDE applications. They pull in tons of dependencies
# Happy computing!
