New install on my Duron box

[Black666]

Hi!

I have a dual-boot W2K and Suse 8.0 at home.
I installed gentoo 1.2 on a box at work and I love gentoo...so it's time to remove windows and make a dual-boot with gentoo and suse at home...but before I'll do this I have some questions:

Windows currently owns hda1 and Suse the other partitions on hda. So I remove hda1 and make the gentoo partitions like told in the install manual (boot, swap, root)?
When I copy grub to the mbr can it boot my suse installation too? If I'm not mistaken I only have to add another entry into grub with the location of the /boot of my suse installation!?
My cpu is a Duron 800 ... I'm going to use the following flags:
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O3 -pipe"

Are these flags correct for my cpu? Any more optimization flags I can put in?

[taskara]

yes it can boot suse, just add an extra line in menu.lst

and those look good, tho you might also want to add
-fomit-frame-pointer
to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS

[Jondot]

Of course you can dual boot SuSe and gentoo.

As concerns fdisking, indeed you can change the type the /dev/hda1 partition and reformat it to ext3, xfs or what you want.

You can share the swap partition with suse, as you can share the /home partition if you made one for suse (adjusting uid and gid in /etc/passwd to reflect what they are for suse for users if necessary)

I wouldn't delete /dev/hda1 partition and try to make three partitions out of one. I don't know enough about the numbering scheme of the partitions but I assume it is NOT safe. (Assuming that you have already four primary partitions, then you can't split /dev/hda1 for example, that's for sure...)

So if you don't want to mess SuSE and your hd I'd suggest :
don't make a separate /boot partition. (except that if you have one for SuSE, you can share it.) You won't need it anyway.

use the existing swap partition of SuSE, no use to waste another.

having set up the type of /dev/hda1 partition (to 83) and formatted it, (you might need to reboot once there to make sure the partitition table has been written) from SuSE, mount the partition to /mnt/gentoo or something like that, untar the tarball stage you want to use, be it stage 1,2,3 of gentoo 1.2, 1.3b, and continue with the installation instructions, chrooting from there... (no swapon needed there of course, your swap is already in use...)

The installation will be done in a xterm and during the compilation, you will be able to use your SuSE distro. Nothing to do to configure internet...

By far the most convenient way to install gentoo.

[3x9]

Duron
B4 you wipe & maybe regret, h/drives are pretty low-priced now.
good excuse to get that shiny new giga-whiz .
No slice & dice, less accidental disrupting the status-quo.
You can temp boot via floppy, not much slower anyway, re-think
about permanent alternates later.
>>grub<<can be side-stepped - or prefer Lilo
After you have a bzImage in boot partition, cd to /usr/src/linux
put in floppy, (don't mount)
type make bzdisk - now you have access, finish install, continue w/grub or whatever
How many have finished up then could not boot into anything ?
Yes, there are alternate rescues, but that is what every distro suggests
4 sight avoids bites to the hind-site

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