Dell arrived -> prepared network for stage1 installation

My new Dell notebook is finally arrived. So now, I am installing Gentoo Linux from stage1.

Booting the minimal liveCD went fine. Even the art in this LiveCD is very nice! I booted "gentoo -nodhcp" while dhcp should only take time because I have no wired connection and the wlan needs encryption. After booting, my wireless card didn't work. In dmesg I found the messages "ipw-2.2-boot.fw load failed: Reason: -2", "Unable to load firmware: 0xFFFFFFFE" and some other messages indicating that starting my wlan card failed. After an "rmmod ipw2200" and "modprobe ipw2200", there were no errors in dmesg so I could start using iwconfig to prepare my wireless connection.

I live at a student home from Ghent University so I need VPN to access the internet. Fortunately, my girlfriend has some windows-pc standing here and doing nothing, so I configured VPN on that machine and shared the internet connection, so I can start a stage1 install.

I'll post all my experiences here, as asked by Christoph.