Quick and dirty Pentoo Installation Guide

Setup your disk

Determine your disk and partition it through fdisk
Format the root partition as you'd like it, and mount it on /mnt/gentoo Format the boot partition as you'd like it, and mount it on /mnt/gentoo/boot

Copy the files

Copy all dirs from /mnt/livecd to /mnt/gentoo
Copy /etc /root to /mnt/gentoo

# \cp -avf /mnt/livecd/* /etc /root /mnt/gentoo

Copy /usr/portage to /mnt/gentoo/usr

# \cp -avf /usr/portage /mnt/gentoo/usr

Configure your "installation"

Mount proc and dev on /mnt/gentoo

# mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev

Chroot on /mnt/gentoo

# chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
# env-update
>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
# source /etc/profile
# export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"

Configure your /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.conf /etc/conf.d/*

Remove autoconfig from default runlevel

# rc-update del autoconfig default

Add keymaps to default

# rc-update add keymaps default

And edit /etc/conf.d/keymaps

# mv /etc/inittab.old /etc/inittab
# mv /etc/init.d/halt.sh.orig /etc/init.d/halt.sh
# passwd root

Change your password

Setup bootloader

Setup grub by editing it's configuration file. If your hdd is /dev/sda it would look like this:

# grep -v rootfs /proc/mounts > /etc/mtab
# grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda

Finish installation

Exit from chroot, umount /mnt/gentoo/*

# exit
# umount /mnt/gentoo/boot /mnt/gentoo/dev /mnt/gentoo/proc /mnt/gentoo

Reboot Enjoy