Install pre-configured Gentoo on KVM VPS

For experts only. This script doesn't precisely follow Gentoo Handbook, use at your own risk.

• currently amd64 is the only supported
• uses vanilla-sources by default
• ssh
  • default sshd configuration disallows password authentication
  • manual ssh port by default
  • firewall disallows all incoming connections, besides ssh by default
  • firewall autobans those who failed to login
• uses cpuid2cpuflags if CPU_FLAGS_X86 are not manually edited
• designed for tmux + vim users
• none of the files in gentoo-root/ are strictly required
  • before installation you can remove entire directory instead (although this wasn't heavily tested) and do manual configuration before/after installation.

Prepare

1. Login to your web admin, go to remote access/VNC page

2. Boot KVM VPS instance from any comfortable .iso, ideally with git, vim, tmux and htop preinstalled (usually Ubuntu Server LTS images are okay)

3. Setup temporary network whatever way you like

4. Before installing, you need dos partition table and at least one ext4 partition. Optionally you can create a swap partition as well (it will be activated automatically).

You don't necessarily need a completely empty root partition to start installing, however your partition should not contain non-dot directories (other than lost+found).

Usage

1. Download

cd ~

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/codonaft/gentoo-vps-box

# Alternatively:
#   wget https://api.github.com/repos/codonaft/gentoo-vps-box/tarball -O - | tar xzf - && mv codonaft-gentoo-vps-box* gentoo-vps-box
# or
#   curl -sS https://api.github.com/repos/codonaft/gentoo-vps-box/tarball -O - | tar xzf - && mv codonaft-gentoo-vps-box* gentoo-vps-box

2. Run preconfigured tmux

gentoo-vps-box/01-run-tmux.sh

3. Enter to configure the system. Copy ssh keys to gentoo-root/{home/*/.ssh,etc/ssh/} if necessary

4. C-a 2 → Enter to install the system

Troubleshooting

Failure? Make changes and restart ./03-install.sh

Sudden reboot/etc.? Check /mnt/gentoo/gentoo-vps-box.log

Support

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License

MIT