Full Plasma desktop, kernel 6.05, desktop 5.25

[fabnicol]

For Haswell+ (or equivalent AMD) Intel/AMD x86-64 processors.

Prerequisites

You will need a PC supporting EFI bootloaders and equipped with an Intel x86_64 processor released in 2013 or later (Haswell+).

Installation

Download the parts of the ISO corresponding to your choice build.
Join them using cat in a console:

$ cat gentoo_plasma*.iso > gentoo.iso

or:

$ cat gentoo_gnome*.iso > gentoo.iso

Burn to DVD or perform a bare metal copy to external device:

dd if=gentoo.iso of=/dev/sdX bs=4M

Two kinds of builds are available.
The minimal-tagged builds propose a minimal set of installed software (see the FAQ). The size of the download is about 3 GB.
The other files have been created using the standard build procedure. The set of installed software is larger (see the FAQ). The size of the download is about 4-4.1 GB.

Carefully check the Wiki Warnings and limitations page before proceeding.
Boot your computer on this installation medium in BIOS legacy mode only. If your computer is set to boot using EFI by default, you will have to select a BIOS boot using your BIOS menu (strike F12, ESC or DEL on startup, depending on your hardware).
Once installation is completed, your computer will shut down automatically.

First login

Reboot your computer in EFI mode this time.
If your graphic card is not Intel-compatible, you will have to tweak the graphic card configuration yourself (check the Gentoo amd64 manual).
Otherwise, you will first log in with a US-English default Qwerty keyboard.
Use password _user2021_ for default user and _dev2021_ for root.
If your keyboard is Azerty, _ can be obtained with Shift - ) and the number keys should be accessed without striking the Shift key.

Please note
Kernel sources have been unmerged to keep the package size down. Please emerge again gentoo-sources the first time you use portage, using the same kernel version as that of the platform kernel (uname -r). Should this version no longer be available in the portage tree, you may have to rebuild your kernel using a currently available version.

Enjoy your Gentoo plasma desktop!

CHECKSUMS

Given for the entire ISO after concatenation of all the parts.

b2sum a2ba5aba4f127ef1848430b2d7bc85eb31b33418c5f16bf7909c9fb9a76c61e1333324afc363cc9adca8597932202bb690b45d1a4831821e8a5d0afe07d75919 gentoo_p.iso
sha512sum cdf00d56e08558a39838370a6c13bb5b11de00b59ad27b724e09508943e405e6864b2e06979872d08f6e8a88640d6471eac02e76d34bd9c44f4ca95966466df6 gentoo_p.iso

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