gentoo-quick-installer

About

This is a quick installer script that can be used to bootstrap amd64 Gentoo Linux quickly.

Script has been tested on VirtualBox. Other platforms could require additional manual tunining.

Anyway, it is simple, minimalistic, easy to read and easy to tune for your needs

Read more: http://www.artembutusov.com/gentoo-linux-quick-installer-script/

Usage

# Bare metal install on /dev/sda with root password:
ROOT_PASSWORD=Gentoo123 ./gentoo-quick-installer.sh

# Remote VM server install with ssh RSA public key:
TARGET_DISK=/dev/vda SSH_PUBLIC_KEY=$(cat id_rsa.pub) ./gentoo-quick-installer.sh

Limitations

• Does not work with UEFI. Legacy BIOS and VM use only.
• Does not work with GPT partitions. MSDOS/MBR only.

Contribution

For almost any change please consider doing a few tests using both commands above.

Images should be bootable and should allow to login using root password-auth or password-less auth via SSH.

Copyright

gentoo-vbox-builder is licensed under the MIT.

A copy of this license is included in the file LICENSE.txt