This How To is inspired by the well-done Installing Debian on the Microsoft Surface Pro 4 instructions.
- NVMe solid state drive including ext4 encryption
- Disable secure boot
- Boot a SystemRescueCd
- Preparing your NVMe disk
- Downloading the latest stage3
- Entering your new system
- Configuring the kernel
- Installing the base system
- Setup the bootloader
- Finalizing the base installation
To use the whole disk, like I do, replace everything on the disk with random bytes
Warning: This command will remove all your data from your HDD including your Windows recovery. If you do not want this I recommend you to shrink your Windows partition
shred -n 1 -v /dev/nvme0n1
Now create a new parition scheme
| Partition | Filesystem | Size |
|---|---|---|
| /boot | vfat | 512M |
| swap | swap | 8G or more if you want suspend to disk support |
| / | ext4 | Rest of the disk |
To create the filesystems use the following commands
mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/nvme0n1p1
mkswap /dev/nvme0n1p2
mkfs.ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3
and to mount them use
swapon /dev/nvme0n1p2
mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
Before you download the latest stage3 archive double check your system's datetime
date
and connect to the internet
nmtui
then download the archive
cd /mnt/gentoo
wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64/stage3-amd64-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2
I recommend to check the integrity for the stage file
wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64/stage3-amd64-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.CONTENTS
wget http://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64/stage3-amd64-YYYYMMDD.tar.bz2.DIGESTS.asc
gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-key 2D182910
gpg --verify stage3-amd64-*.tar.bz2.DIGESTS.asc
awk '/SHA512 HASH/{getline;print}' stage3-amd64-*.tar.bz2.DIGESTS.asc | sha512sum --check
and extract the contents
tar xvjpf stage3-amd64-*.tar.bz2
Mouting some needed filesystems, if you want to know more about it see Mounting the necessary filesystems
mount -t proc none /mnt/gentoo/proc
mount --rbind /sys /mnt/gentoo/sys
mount --rbind /dev /mnt/gentoo/dev
Copy DNS information
cp /etc/resolv.conf /mnt/gentoo/etc
Entering the new system
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash
Initialising the portage tree
emerge-webrsync
emerge --sync
I recommend to use the pf-sources for later performance optimization
emerge -a sys-kernel/pf-sources
For now only add some required modules
cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig
Processor type and features --->
[*] EFI runtime service support
[*] EFI stub support
Device Drivers --->
<*> NVM Express block device
[*] Network device support --->
[*] Wireless LAN --->
[*] Marvell devices
[M] Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver
[M] Marvell WiFi-Ex Driver for PCIE 8766/8897/8997
[*] USB support --->
<*> xHCI HCD (USB 3.0) support
compiling and installing
make -j5
make install
make modules_install
In the first step install just some basic packages
emerge -a linux-firmware networkmanager terminus-font
Adjust your /etc/fstab.
There's a very good documentation how to install Systemd on Gentoo. In short you have to reconfigure your kernel, append systemd to the USE variable and update packages
emerge -uDN @world
you can use Systemd's own boot manager, recompile the systemd package with gnuefi USE flag.
Configure the loader entries in /boot/loader.
bootctl install
Set root password
passwd
and reboot into your new system
exit
cd ~
rm /mnt/gentoo/stage3-*.tar.bz2
umount -lR /mnt/gentoo
reboot
If everything goes right you now should have a working base systen
Now Gentoo should be restarted with the new systemd init system so you can
systemd-machine-id-setup
hostnamectl set-hostname <HOSTNAME>
localectl set-keymap <KEYMAP>
timedatectl set-timezone <TIMEZONE>
echo "FONT=ter-132n" >> /etc/vconsole.conf
systemctl enable NetworkManager.service
systemctl start NetworkManager.service
and reboot to double-check that everything is working fine with Systemd
systemctl reboot
Edit your /etc/portage/make.conf
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
after that update GCC to version 5.4, maybe you have to unmask the ~amd64 flag
emerge -u gcc
To re-compile the system do
cd /usr/portage/scripts
./bootstrap.sh
Now you can rebuild the system
emerge --emptytree --with-bdeps=y @world
You can determine them by emerging app-portage/cpuid2cpuflags and add them to your /etc/portage/make.conf
CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx avx2 fma3 mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"
after that recompile all affected packages
emerge -DN @world
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