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    28. Add user and machine information. Add a password for the root user, a regular user account name of your choosing (chris in this example), a machine name, and a domain name. If you like, you can also edit the /etc/hosts and /etc/rc.conf files to add IP addresses and a hostname or change the basic system startup script.
    # passwd
    # passwd chris
    # echo
    mymachine > /etc/hostname
    # echo
    mydomain·com > /etc/dnsdomainname
    # nano -w /etc/hosts
    # nano -w /etc/rc.conf
    29. Set up networking. Edit the net file, and then run rc-update to add the eth0 interface as the default. (Uncomment the line iface eth0="dhcp" to have the network use DHCP to start up automatically.)


    # nano -w /etc/conf.d/net
    # rc-update add net.eth0 default
    30. Add kernel modules. Add any extra kernel modules that you need to add at boot time. You usually need to do this only if some piece of hardware isn't detected and the module needed to use it isn't automatically loaded. Edit either the kernel-2.4 or kernel-2.6 file, depending on which kernel you are using.
    # nano -w /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-'uname -r'
    You can type uname -a to see what your current kernel version is.


    31. Configure the boot loader. You need to install a boot loader (grub in this example) and configure it. The example makes the following assumptions about your setup. You need to replace any of the following information with the settings for your particular setup:
    Gentoo is installed on your first IDE hard disk (/dev/hda). You have a separate /boot partition on /dev/hda1.
    Your initrd file in the /boot directory is initramfs-genkernel-x86-2.6.18- gentoo-r2. Your kernel file in the /boot directory is kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.18-gentoo-r2. If any of that information is different for your setup, you need to adapt the following step appropriately. To configure grub, install it with emerge, run the grub command, and then create the grub.conf file as follows:
    # emerge grub
    # grub
    grub> root (hd0,0)
    grub> setup (hd0)
    grub> quit