Gentoo Linux AMD64 Handbook

Chapter 5. Installing the Gentoo
Installation Files
Installing a Stage Tarball
Setting the Date/Time Right
Before you continue you need to check your date/time and update it. A misconfigured clock may lead
to strange results in the future!
To verify the current date/time, run date:
Example 5.1. Verifying the date/time
# date
Fri Mar 29 16:21:18 UTC 2005
If the date/time displayed is wrong, update it using the date MMDDhhmmYYYY syntax (Month,
Day, hour, minute and Year). At this stage, you should use UTC time. You will be able to define your
timezone later on. For instance, to set the date to March 29th, 16:21 in the year 2005:
Example 5.2. Setting the UTC date/time
# date 032916212005
Making your Choice
The next step you need to perform is to install the stage3 tarball onto your system. The command
uname -m can be used to help you decide which stage file to download as it provides information on
the architecture of your system.
Using a Stage from the Internet
Downloading the Stage Tarball
Go to the Gentoo mountpoint at which you mounted your filesystems (most likely /mnt/gentoo):
Example 5.3. Going to the Gentoo mountpoint
# cd /mnt/gentoo
Depending on your installation medium, you have a couple of tools available to download a
stage. If you have links available, then you can immediately surf to the Gentoo mirrorlist [/main/
en/mirrors.xml] and choose a mirror close to you: type links http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/
mirrors.xml and press enter.
If you don't have links available you should have lynx at your disposal. If you need to go through a
proxy, export the http_proxy and ftp_proxy variables:
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