#I need someone to be able to explain how the installation of gentoo minimal works on amd mainly syst

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vague fossil
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you have to set up the disks

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once booted type in cfdisk

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what

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the first one

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whats on them? windows?

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if you dont need them then delete them

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delete all the partitions

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iirc you need extra things in order for cfdisk to see nvme drives

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is the nvme your main disk?

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like the disk you want to install gentoo on

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okay so

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when it asks for the end size, put in 256MiB

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i dont remember what it looks like

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yo mb i was fixing something

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make the first partition from the start of the disk to 256MiB, this will be the boot partition

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btw what bios type do you use?

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primary

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whats your bios type

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yes you're on uefi

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thats what i meant

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if you were on efi or legacy

vague fossil
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now make another one

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how much RAM do you have?

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so 16

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yes

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on the second partition, leave the first option the same and make the size 32GiB

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yes

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make the filesystem be swap

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also make sure the first partition is EFI

deft mango
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is the vm using efi?

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most default to bios

vague fossil
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yes for the second one

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boot has to be efi

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and then for your last partition, keep the sizes default on both and make it xfs type

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32 is swap

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use the rest for the LAST partition

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yes

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the one that says swap

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send a ss

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well the ID on mine is 83, so use that

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later on we'll make a swapfs

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swap filesystem

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its only for that partition

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use the one that says Linux

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swap is temporary storage for RAM pages, it doesnt act as RAM directly because the CPU cant access it that way, but its there so you dont run out of memory.

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use the one under Linux swap / Solaris

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did you make a partition for the rest of the disk?

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the 256 one needs to be EFI

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efi

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EFI fat

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this is mine

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i used a gig because im stupid lol

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you only need 256mib

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okay thats good

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click on Write

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thats your boot partition, it will contain your bootloader (grub)

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it has to be on a efi partition, yes

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once that is done you can start downloading the gentoo stage3

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we will set it up later

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also to make sure networking works, so run ping google.com and see if you get responses back

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you're what

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lmao

sleek yoke
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mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda3 But better yet, i'd use wipefs to clear out disklabels and other identifiers

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see man wipefs

shut dirge
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This is a video guide and you saying you followed it.