I Installed Gentoo From Scratch in One Stream (2.5hr, Full Kernel Compile)
Full Gentoo Linux install, start to finish, in one continuous session — including the full ~1 hour distribution-kernel emerge, narrated live. No "and now we wait" jump cuts on the parts that matter. If you've watched a "Gentoo install in 20 minutes" video and felt cheated, this is the antidote.
Hardware: libvirt/QEMU VM, 10 logical cores, 32GB RAM. Distribution kernel (gentoo-kernel), OpenRC (not systemd), GRUB on UEFI, BTRFS root. The kernel emerge alone took a little over an hour on that hardware — it's all in the chapter at 1:23:43. By 2:23:56 we're booted. By the end you've got sudo, a user, and a base ready to build a desktop on.
I've been using Gentoo since I was 13. This is the install I do.
Chapters:
00:00 What we're installing & why Gentoo
06:35 The case for Gentoo (control, security, recompile-on-demand)
07:55 Spinning up the VM (virt-manager, 10 cores, 32GB)
21:22 Booting the live ISO
23:52 Partitioning the disk with fdisk + GPT
32:46 Filesystems, mount, and swap on
42:14 Stage3 download and extract
49:51 chroot in and configure portage
51:31 emerge sync — the first long wait
1:05:17 USE flags and per-package configuration
1:23:43 Configuring and installing the kernel (~1 hour compile)
2:02:58 Hostname, network, fstab, system config
2:16:51 GRUB bootloader install (4 hours in, almost there)
2:23:56 The reboot — first boot into Gentoo
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