Now this is more like it! Today I stumbled onto this great Gentoo walk-through. The distro may still not be for newbies, but having help like this is a great step in the right direction.

The short scripts below, will walk you through the installation of the 2005.1, or 2005.0, editions of Gentoo. It is assumed that you have the relevant CD sets, but no internet connection. The CD set (of two disks) can be downloaded from one of the mirrors listed here.

A little history.

A few months ago I was given a set of Linux distributions which included Gentoo 2005.0. I attempted to install Gentoo, but quickly gave up. This was due to not being able to access the full documentation. I entered the command links /mnt/cdrom/docs/handbook/html/index.html as suggested in the text that appears just after the CD boots. This provided what appeared to be documentation. Unfortunately, having never used the program links before, I did not correctly discover how to navigate the pages. I made the assumption that one used the navigation line… [Read the rest]