In order to be able to su to root with your average user, you need to at this user to the wheel group.

The new GUI installer sucks (it doesn't know how to fail if its emerge fails at any point during to installation…)

Follow this guide to beautify your fonts of your system…

Followed this excellent guide
for Gentoo installation. The only difference was the wireless card
since I had one that works with ipw2200 drivers. To configure your
card, here is what you need.

General Gentoo tip: You should definitely install module-rebuild. It understands which packages need to be recompiled because of the kernel dependency (caused by a recompile of the kernel, etc…). How cool this can be?!

More to come…