Installation of Gentoo

The following post should help you through the installation steps in the AMD64 handbook.
(You might consider a multiboot system, see the Windows 7 post)

Resources:
Gentoo AMD64 Project


1. About the Gentoo Linux Installation

2. Choosing the Right Installation Medium
Choose the mimimal installation cd, install-amd64-minimal-.iso .
You should probably enable booting of CD in BIOS.

3. Configuring your Network
I had some problems with the network. The atl1c driver was not included in the install cd, hence eth0 was not present. wlan0 seemed to work, but the firmware needed was not included.
To get network access, I did the following with aid from another computer:
* Downloaded the iwlwifi-1000-*.ucode from http://intellinuxwireless.org/
* copied iwlwifi-1000-*.ucode to /lib/firmware
* ifconfig wlan0 up
* used iwconfig to connect to my temporary opened wireless router (iwconfig wlan0 essid router_name, dhcpcd wlan0)

4. Preparing the Disks
I did not use a /boot partition

5. Installing the Gentoo Installation Files
Here is my make.conf:

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

# WARNING: Changing your CHOST is not something that should be done lightly.
# Please consult http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/change-chost.xml before changing.
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"

# These are the USE flags that were used in addition to what is provided by the
# profile used for building.
USE="mmx sse sse2 acpi lm_sensors pmu laptop -xscreensaver -gnome -cups -qt3 -qt4 -kde -bluetooth"


# For package logging
PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save"
PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="warn error log info qa"

# Sync server
SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"

# For xorg-server
VIDEO_CARDS="radeon intel"
INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics"

# For ALSA (?)
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"

# For overlays
# source /usr/local/portage/layman/make.conf

# As described in handbook
MAKEOPTS="-j3"

6. Installing the Gentoo Base System

7. Configuring the Kernel
Use manual configuration. Read this seperate post:
Configuring the kernel

8. Configuring your System

9. Installing Necessary System Tools

10. Configuring the Bootloader

11. Finalizing your Gentoo Installation

12. Where to go from here?