
One of the best features introduced in Sabayon 5.3, the latest upgrade to the Gentoo-based, multi-purpose Linux distribution is the installer. The old installer was dumped in favor of Anaconda, the Fedora 13 installation program. Aside from bringing
enterprise-class storage features to Sabayon, Anaconda boots a lot faster than Sabayon's old installer, which had the unenviable reputation of being very slow and resource-intensive.
With the new installation program, the old installation guides are of no use to new adopters. Hence the need for this guide which presents a very detailed description of the important steps involved. You'll find in this guide detailed explanations of the importance of disk encryption, bootloader password protection, and LVM disk space allocation.
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