After dishes, delights and horrors beyond my comprehension await me...I will be installing Gentoo. I need a good distraction today because work was a lot and overwhelmed me. I need a boss battle task to exorcise this strange ass mental energy that will doing my head in for hours.
Likely, I will not sleep well or no more than 2 hours anyway. So with luck, I have Gentoo installed and ready for the next phase by the time a brief slumber takes me.
Oh boy, I thought the horrors had begun after I had connected to my Wifi using the nmtui (Network Manager Terminal User Interface). However, I discovered that fdisk can in fact print the current partition table for me so that my life is easier. It will not be as hard for me to create this new partition table for Gentoo. I just need to actually do it now. ROFL
@sci_photos That would be suitable for a more advanced user...I could not begin to fathom sfdisk in my quasi-sentient state. Surprisingly, I did succeed with fdisk (the Gentoo Handbook is a guiding light in the dark of a terminal screen). The keymap needs work for the minimal installer, but it wasn't horrible. That was actually the main source of my problems, having to triple verify everything before committing a change.
For a first timer, I have done all the relevant steps up to "emerge --sync" I am probably close to being there, but a bit far off yet.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds 🥳 great!
Sure the Gentoo install is low-level, in other words: a learning opportunity ;)
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