F2FS Install Guide

Introduction

These docs assume you have a "PC compatible" computer system with a standard PC BIOS. Many new computers support UEFI for booting, which is a new firmware interface that frequently replaces the older MBR-based BIOS. If you have a system with UEFI, you will want to use this documentation along with the UEFI Install Guide, which will augment these instructions and explain how to get your system to boot. You may need to change your PC BIOS settings to enable or disable UEFI booting. The UEFI Install Guide has more information on this, and steps on how to determine if your system supports UEFI.

Installing on F2FS isn't terribly different from installing on XFS or EXT4;; but there are enough factors that warrant a guide of its own

Live CD

Funtoo doesn't provide an "official" Funtoo Live CD, but there are plenty of good ones out there to choose from. A great choice is the Debian-based GRML as it contains lots of tools and utilities and supports both 32-bit and 64-bit systems.

It is also possible to install Funtoo Linux using many other Linux-based live CDs. Generally, any modern bootable Linux live CD or live USB media will work. See requirements for an overview of what the Live Media must provide to allow a problem-free install of Funtoo Linux.

To begin a Funtoo Linux installation, boot your preferred live media & start a commandline session.

Starting an SSH session

This is only required if you wish to perform the installation process on a computer other than where you are installing funtoo to

service ssh start; passwd; ifconfig

This starts SSH, asks for a root password, and then displays the IP address

Install required programs

apt-get update; apt-get install f2fs-tools elinks

F2FS is not included in current linux kernels, and elinks is used to download the stage3 tarball

Partitioning

cfdisk /dev/sda

Your partition layout should be similar to

Partition	Size	MBR Block Device (fdisk)	MBR Code
/boot	512 MB	/dev/sda1	83
swap	1.5 to 2x RAM for low-memory systems and production servers; otherwise 2GB.	/dev/sda2	82
/ (root)	minimum of 10GB. Note: to compile the debian-sources kernel, requires a minimum of 14GB free space in /tmp; consider a minimum of 20GB in this case.	/dev/sda3	83
/home	User storage and media. Typically most of the disk.	/dev/sda4 (if created)	83

Formatting

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1
mkswap /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
mkfs.f2fs /dev/sda3
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda4

Mounting the new system

mkdir /mnt/funtoo
mount -t f2fs /dev/sda3 /mnt/funtoo
mkdir /mnt/funtoo/boot
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/funtoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/funtoo/home
mount -o noatime /dev/sda4 /mnt/funtoo/home

Downloading the system

cd /mnt/funtoo/
elinks build.funtoo.org
<console/>
Navigate to your arch, your subarch and save stage3

==Installing stage3==
<console>
tar xpfv stage3-latest.tar.xz
cp /etc/resolv.conf etc

===chrooting into the new system mount -t proc none proc
mount --rbind /sys sys
mount --rbind /dev dev
env -i HOME=/root TERM=$TERM; chroot . bash -l
export PS1="(chroot) $PS1"
emerge --sync
nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda3 / f2fs rw,acl,active_logs=6,background_gc=on,user_xattr 0 1
/dev/sda4 /home ext4 noatime 0 1
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro 0 0

nproc
nano /etc/make.conf
CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"

emerge -auDN @world
emerge --depclean
mkdir /etc/portage/sets
emerge -av sys-kernel/gentoo-sources sys-kernel/genkernel f2fs-tools
cd /usr/src/linux; make menuconfig

1. Filesystems->Miscellaneous->F2FS
   
2. Save config as 'f2fs.config'
   

echo 'f2fs' >> /etc/conf.d/modules
genkernel --kernel-config=f2fs.config all

1. The next three steps are the same as listed here
   

emerge grub boot-update
grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
boot-update
genkernel initramfs
rc-update add dhcpcd default
passwd

Next Steps

If you are brand new to Funtoo Linux and Gentoo Linux, please check out Funtoo Linux First Steps, which will help get you acquainted with your new system. We also have a category for our official documentation, which includes all docs that we officially maintain for installation and operation of Funtoo Linux.

We also have a number of pages dedicated to setting up your system, which you can find below. If you are interested in adding a page to this list, add it to the "First Steps" MediaWiki category.

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If your system did not boot correctly, see Installation Troubleshooting for steps you can take to resolve the problem.