Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook

Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook
8.15. Opening /etc/hosts ................................................................................................ 51
8.16. Filling in the networking information ...................................................................... 51
8.17. Installing pcmciautils ........................................................................................... 51
8.18. Setting the root password ...................................................................................... 51
8.19. Configuring services ............................................................................................ 52
8.20. Opening /etc/conf.d/keymaps ................................................................................. 52
8.21. Opening /etc/conf.d/hwclock .................................................................................. 52
8.22. Opening /etc/locale.gen ......................................................................................... 52
8.23. Specify your locales ............................................................................................. 52
8.24. Running locale-gen .............................................................................................. 53
8.25. Setting the default system locale in /etc/env.d/02locale ............................................... 53
8.26. Reload shell environment ...................................................................................... 53
8.27. Enabling hvc or hvsi support in /etc/inittab ............................................................... 53
9.1. Installing a system logger ....................................................................................... 54
9.2. Installing a cron daemon ........................................................................................ 54
9.3. Installing mlocate .................................................................................................. 55
9.4. Adding sshd to the default runlevel .......................................................................... 55
9.5. Editing /etc/inittab ................................................................................................. 55
9.6. Uncommenting serial consoles in inittab .................................................................... 55
9.7. Installing iprutils ................................................................................................... 55
9.8. Installing dhcpcd ................................................................................................... 56
9.9. Installing ppp ....................................................................................................... 56
10.1. Installing GRUB ................................................................................................. 58
10.2. Creating /boot/grub/grub.conf ................................................................................. 58
10.3. Example grub.conf ............................................................................................... 58
10.4. GRUB snippet for initramfs-enabled kernel builds ..................................................... 59
10.5. Creating /etc/mtab ................................................................................................ 60
10.6. Running grub-install ............................................................................................. 60
10.7. Starting the GRUB shell ....................................................................................... 60
10.8. Installing GRUB in the MBR ................................................................................ 61
10.9. Installing LILO ................................................................................................... 61
10.10. Creating /etc/lilo.conf .......................................................................................... 61
10.11. Example /etc/lilo.conf ......................................................................................... 62
10.12. LILO snippet for initramfs-enabled kernel builds ..................................................... 62
10.13. Using append to add kernel options ....................................................................... 62
10.14. Finishing the LILO installation ............................................................................. 63
10.15. Unmounting all partitions and rebooting ................................................................. 63
10.16. Unmounting all partitions and rebooting ................................................................. 63
11.1. Adding a user for day-to-day use ........................................................................... 64
11.2. Removing the stage3 tarball .................................................................................. 64
13.1. Reading the emerge man page ............................................................................... 70
13.2. Updating the Portage tree ...................................................................................... 70
13.3. Running emerge-webrsync .................................................................................... 70
13.4. Searching for pdf-named packages .......................................................................... 71
13.5. Searching for pdf-related packages ......................................................................... 71
13.6. Example 'emerge --search' output ........................................................................... 71
13.7. Installing gnumeric .............................................................................................. 71
13.8. Pretend to install gnumeric .................................................................................... 71
13.9. Download the sourcecode for gnumeric ................................................................... 72
13.10. Checking the existence of a doc USE flag .............................................................. 72
13.11. Locating package documentation .......................................................................... 72
13.12. Removing gnumeric from the system ..................................................................... 73
13.13. Updating your system ......................................................................................... 73
13.14. Updating your system with dependencies ............................................................... 73
13.15. Updating your entire system ................................................................................ 73
13.16. Performing a full update ..................................................................................... 73
13.17. Removing orphaned dependencies ......................................................................... 74
13.18. Installing the gentoolkit package ........................................................................... 74
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