Okay, Gentoo round 2 has begun officially (my body was acting up, had to make it chill). Good news, my partitions were remembered from the previous session that ended in doom.
I have used fdisk to confirm their labels are intact from this morning. I do need to mount them before the next step, however, as they are currently unmounted.
This is going a lot faster as it enables me to follow instructions at a reasonable clip. Got to the chroot stage a lot sooner, just took about an hour!
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!
Yep, I reached my hard limit of expertise, while a good mastodon buddy @wendigo was able to assist with enabling a USE Flag. In order to build this kernel there are so many USE Flags to alter, I am getting dizzy because the overwhelm is hitting me like a ton of bricks.
I recognize when I am outplayed, and this is the point in time when I must concede. I will be better prepared, perhaps if I actually try this again in the distant future.
The horrors did indeed find me and I suffered beautifully for my hubris.
Respectfully, I bow to Gentoo this day. As it opened my eyes to the basics.
Made me realize that I am not ready for this level of complexity. I'll install EnvdeavorOS and wade in my Arch Kiddie pool for the time being. ROFL
@wendigo Yeah, the sad thing is that I did have a portage USE conf basic version set up, but...There was just too much information to parse for my brain to handle.
It's wild that I can carefree handle .pacdiffs and merge them without fail or causing myself any problems. USE and the flags is a different beast all together.
I 100% understand why you left and it removed so many issues from your life too. As Gentoo is really for those that are turned on 1000% of the time, they have absolute brain cell usage at all times.
Crest of Light
Brian Nicar