Quote Originally Posted by ^xor
The handbook is available on the LiveCD. Just start up screen, or if that is too difficult for you, login to another virtual console with ctrl+alt+f2.
oh yeah... I forgot it was on the CD :P

Quote Originally Posted by confuted
I'd suggest not trying to be a ricer, and using something other than Gentoo. If you really want to take days or weeks to compile your whole system, do a Linux from scratch.
um, the kernel only took a couple of hours to compile... and KDE only took long for me because I installed the entire package... even so, I could have had the whole thing done in a day if I didn't decide to mess around with things along the way... (it took less than 3 days (just a few hours a day) - including compiling the kernel three times and installing KDE twice)