I'm "trying" to install gentoo, but I'm having a ***** of a time!

Is there any easy way to install this?

I looked through the readme file that came with the download of the distro and there's like 10 pages of instructions to install it.

Do I have to follow all these steps or can I just do some kind of automated install that just uses default settings?

I just want to check out Gentoo and play around with it. I don't really care to get into all the details right now.

Any help would be great!

Thanks, Tim