Best Partition Layout?

Guest · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 9:27 pm Post subject: Best Partition Layout?

I would like to change my partions as little as possible.

I have the following:

/dev/hda1 Linux Boot
/dev/hda2 Linux Swap
/dev/hda3 Linux Root
/dev/hdb1 Win XP
/dev/hdb2 Empty but 100MB for Boot (under cylinder 1024)
/dev/hdb3 Empty for Root

Can gentoo share the same swap parition as my current Linux install?

My current install uses Lilo, can I keep it and point it to the root partition on /dev/hdb? What would I have change to make it do so?

I've tried this before and never got it to boot without swapping out the drive and doing the install as /dev/hda. Any tips Gentoo Linux Gurus?

Utoxin · Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2002 9:28 pm Post subject:

Yes, it can. Your layout looks fine.
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craftyc · Guru Joined: 23 May 2002 Posts: 443 Location: Behind You.

I second what Utoxin says. It will work fine.

You will be able to keep lilo and point it to the / partition on /dev/hdb.
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syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

your set up great, pretty much what i've got and i tri boot, two different gentoo installs and a suse8 install