I just installed Gentoo in less than a dozen minutes (and with just one command). (... Though, a gentoo install is never "done".)
::: spoiler how in the...
digit 20251229 tyson mx /home/digit % time sudo brl fetch -n timetoo gentoo
[sudo] password for digit:
[ 1/16 ( 6%)] Determining name
* Using timetoo
[ 2/16 ( 12%)] Determining CPU architecture
* Using x86_64
[ 3/16 ( 18%)] Determining release
* Using rolling
[ 4/16 ( 25%)] Determining mirror
* Checking bedrock.conf [brl-fetch-mirror] items
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* Fast filtering 286 to top 10
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* Finding fastest mirror from 10
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* Using http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo
[ 5/16 ( 31%)] Making bootstrap directory structure
[ 6/16 ( 37%)] Finding bootstrap software
group_flavor: amd64
openrc
[ 7/16 ( 43%)] Downloading bootstrap software
Looking for file matching: ^stage3-amd64-openrc-[^.]*[.]tar[.]\(xz\|bz2\)$
at: http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc/
found: stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz
Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz.DIGESTS
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1352 100 1352 0 0 4684 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 4694
Downloading http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/releases/amd64/autobuilds/current-stage3-amd64-openrc//stage3-amd64-openrc-20251228T163057Z.tar.xz
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 250M 100 250M 0 0 1376k 0 0:03:06 0:03:06 --:--:-- 1189k
[ 8/16 ( 50%)] Preparing bootstrap software
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[ 9/16 ( 56%)] Running bootstrap software
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[10/16 ( 62%)] Configuring
!!! Section 'gentoo' in repos.conf has location attribute set to nonexistent directory: '/var/db/repos/gentoo'
!!! Invalid Repository Location (not a dir): '/var/db/repos/gentoo'
* PGP verification method: gemato
* Fetching most recent snapshot ...
* Trying to retrieve 20251228 snapshot from http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo ...
* Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum ...
/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 57 --.-KB/s in 0s
2025-12-29 17:07:38 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum [57/57] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.md5sum" [1]
* Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig ...
/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 1000 --.-KB/s in 0s
2025-12-29 17:07:39 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig [1000/1000] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig" [1]
* Fetching file gentoo-20251228.tar.xz ...
/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz 100%[======================================================================================================================================================================================================>] 45.76M 1.35MB/s in 35s
2025-12-29 17:08:15 URL:http://ftp.fau.de/gentoo/snapshots/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz [47983992/47983992] -> "/var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz" [1]
* Checking digest ...
* Checking signature with gemato ...
[ INFO] Refreshing keys...
[ INFO] Keys refreshed.
[ INFO] File /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz verified successfully against the signature in /var/tmp/emerge-webrsync.reeo1M/gentoo-20251228.tar.xz.gpgsig:
[ INFO] - status: OpenPGPSignatureStatus.GOOD
[ INFO] - valid: True, trusted: True
[ INFO] - primary key: DCD05B71EAB94199527F44ACDB6B8C1F96D8BF6D
[ INFO] - subkey: E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250
[ INFO] - timestamp: 2025-12-29 01:06:30 UTC
* Getting snapshot timestamp ...
* Extracting 'gentoo-20251228.tar.xz' ...
* Using rsync to refresh '/var/db/repos/gentoo' ...
Number of files: 155,780 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,531)
Number of created files: 155,779 (reg: 128,249, dir: 27,530)
Number of deleted files: 0
Number of regular files transferred: 128,249
Total file size: 236.44M bytes
Total transferred file size: 236.44M bytes
Literal data: 236.44M bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3.60M
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 120.70M
Total bytes received: 2.56M
sent 120.70M bytes received 2.56M bytes 7.47M bytes/sec
total size is 236.44M speedup is 1.92
Performing Global Updates
(Could take a couple of minutes if you have a lot of binary packages.)
* IMPORTANT: 18 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.
[11/16 ( 68%)] Setting locale
Found 1 locale declaration in '/etc/locale.gen'.
Compiling 2 locales with 2 workers ...
[1/2] Compiling locale: C.UTF-8
[2/2] Compiling locale: en_GB.UTF-8
Waiting for active workers to finish their jobs ...
The location of the archive shall be '/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive'.
Adding 2 locales to the locale archive ...
Successfully installed an archive containing 2 locales, of 2.93 MiB in size.
[12/16 ( 75%)] Cleaning up
[13/16 ( 81%)] Importing users and groups
[14/16 ( 87%)] Preparing symlinks
[15/16 ( 93%)] Showing
[16/16 (100%)] Enabling
* Successfully fetched a new gentoo stratum with name timetoo
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Executed in 683.06 secs fish external
usr time 90.03 millis 1.33 millis 88.71 millis
sys time 182.29 millis 0.55 millis 181.74 millis