Gentoo

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Gentoo 12 http://www.gentoo.org/

Information

ERPXE Module

• Name: - Gentoo

• Version: 12

• Official website: http://www.gentoo.org/

• License: GNU General Public License

• Wikpedia Page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo_Linux

• Download: http://www.erpxe.com/downloads

• Supported from ERPXE 1.0

Plugin type

Plugin type

Gentoo	Anti-Virus	Deployment	Diagnostics	OS Installation	Live Media	Recovery Tools
	No	No	No	Yes	No	No

Plugin Requirments

Plugin Requirments

Gentoo	CIFS	HTTP	Internet	NFS	Linux OS	Windows OS
	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No

Screen Shots

Special Information

Gentoo Linux is a computer operating system built on top of the Linux kernel and based on the Portage package management system.

It is distributed as free and open source software.

Unlike a conventional software distribution, the user compiles the source code locally according to their chosen configuration.

Where source-code is available, Portage normally supplies no precompiled binaries, continuing in the tradition of the ports collection.

The development project and its products are named after the fastest-swimming penguin, the Gentoo, to reflect the potential speed improvements of machine-specific optimization.

Gentoo package management is designed to be modular, portable, easy to maintain, flexible, and optimized for the user's machine.

Gentoo describes itself as a meta-distribution, "because of its near-unlimited adaptability", in that the majority of users have configurations and sets of installed programs which are unique to themselves.

Linux Installation Instructions

Download gentoo12-ARCH-XXX.tar.gz to /

https://sourceforge.net/projects/erpxe/files/plugins/

extract gentoo12-ARCH-XXX.tar.gz file:

tar -xvzf gentoo12-ARCH-XXX.tar.gz

Download Gentoo 12 ISO Latest Version to /mnt/ :

http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml

Mount ISO file to temporary location (/mnt/cdrom/)

mkdir /mnt/cdrom/
mount -o loop /mnt/install-ARCH-minimal.iso /mnt/cdrom/

Gentoo x86: Copy gentoo.igz , gentoo , image.squashfs to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo /tftpboot/er/plugins/gentoo/i386/gentoo
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo.igz /tftpboot/er/plugins/gentoo/i386/gentoo.igz
cp /mnt/cdrom/image.squashfs /tftpboot/er/shares/gentoo/i386/image.squashfs

Gentoo x64: Copy gentoo.igz , gentoo , image.squashfs to appropriate directory: (LOWER CASE ONLY!)

cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo /tftpboot/er/plugins/gentoo/x86_64/gentoo
cp /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/gentoo.igz /tftpboot/er/plugins/gentoo/x86_64/gentoo.igz
cp /mnt/cdrom/image.squashfs /tftpboot/er/shares/gentoo/x86_64/image.squashfs

Verify files with filelist.txt in each folder.

All Done!