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Where installs are concerned, I have had great luck with a Gentoo drive
image I've got. It's compiled for i686, so I'm not sure how well it'd
go over on Athlons, but the installation of this thing really only takes
15 minutes or so. What I usually do is hook the drive onto which I want
to install to a little VIA EPIA MII system I've got here, mount the
image files using loopback, then do a "cp -a" to copy all the files over
to the partitions on the new drive (I've got 2 image files on the VIA
box, one for boot and one for root). Then, boot the new system from the
Gentoo LiveCD, chroot to the new install, and run the GRUB installer.
Restart, and voila. There are usually 1 or 2 things to reconfigure like
fstab, network driver, and X.Org config but that goes extremely quick if
you know what you're doing. All in all, I won't install Gentoo any
other way these days. Of course, I've put a lot of work into that image
and keep it reasonably up-to-date.
The best part is that you get a custom-compiled Gentoo system out of the
deal without waiting all weekend for things to compile from scratch :)
-N
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