Entering the new environment - dpopchev/howto-quick-setup-gentoo GitHub Wiki

Handbook

• Gentoo Live CD

  chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash 
  source /etc/profile 
  export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}"
  

• non Gentoo Live CD

  chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/env -i TERM=$TERM /bin/bash 
  env-update 
  source /etc/profile 
  export PS1="(chroot) $PS1" 
  

Mounting partitions to mount points

mount /dev/sda1 /boot

NOTE Subsequent commands assume working in the chroot env, if not otherwise said.