Gentoo Round 2 is going better than expected.

I have achieved the next stage, overcome the dreaded "env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" by trusting my gut and not using the default that was marked in the Gentoo Handbook. I selected, "en_US.UTF-8" and now I am ready to build a fucking kernel.

The horrors, now, will probably begin in earnest as I have walked a path of paradise up until this stage due to my previous prep work that got me to this stage a lot faster. It's only been a few hours now.

Gentoo Handbook is still pretty solid in terms of guiding me, a few double takes at times are necessary to fully process the task which is asked of me.

If this were old me, I would've run. However, I am not afraid as I do have safety nets that will allow me to restore this laptop to working order. However, there are 16 miles of terminal wasteland left to traverse...Before the horrors catch up to me, better get to it!

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Gentoo Round 2 is about to begin, as I am willing to give myself another few attempts because this is honestly a very technical installation process. If I fail too much, I will call it quits and decide to be sane about this. I don't have an infinite weekend nor time in order to succeed.

I have a Calamares installed distro at the ready in case of emergency that will only take me at most 2 hours to return the laptop to a previous state.

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Well, my Gentoo Journey ended at the "env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" part of the Gentoo Handbook, it did not like my selection. I feel like I should've chosen the one I felt was right. Basically all the steps up to that point were correct, however, not choosing "en_US.UTF-8" honestly fucked the install up. Booted me out of chroot and I couldn't do anything else after that.

So that was fun, I might use the KDE Live Image to install Gentoo to speed certain aspects along. As setting up Sway after such a marathon is going to be a pain in my ass...At the same time, I don't need the minimal Gentoo installer defeating me like this. I will probably use the power of spicy geek spite to get me through this install process, as I was so fucking close.

It took me 5 hrs to fail, which is impressive because I thought I wouldn't nearly make it towards the kernel build.

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