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                         *   Gentoo  Anaconda  port   *
                         ******************************

                        Introduction to the Gentoo port
                     by wiktor w brodlo <wiktor@brodlo.net>


This is a fork of Sabayon's <http://www.sabayon.org> of Anaconda,  itself a fork
of Red Hat's/Fedora's  Anaconda.  The reason for choosing  this particular setup
was because Sabayon is a Gentoo-based distribution  and has already prepared the
infrastructure  requried for the installation of Anaconda on a Gentoo system and
for the installation of a Gentoo system using Anaconda (ebuilds for Anaconda and
its dependencies, build/install process etc.).

Several packages have  been imported  from the  Sabayon overlay,  available from
layman, and some of these had to be patched and/or adapted slightly.

The following files in the docs/  directory have been provided by Red Hat and/or
Sabayon and have not been changed since the initial for from Sabayon:

 - anaconda-release-notes.txt
 - api.cfg
 - driverdisc.txt
 - gettext.txt
 - install-methods.txt
 - lvm_sanity_checks.txt
 - making-screenshots
 - mediacheck.txt
 - rescue-mode
 - threads.txt
 
Feel free to read those but their  accuracy,  completeness and relevancy are not
guaranteed.

The Anaconda  documentation from Fedora is a very useful source  of information,
and is generally more up-to-date than the above files.
It is available at <http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda>.