exactly what i was thinking lol

try emerging a program called dosemu, it might do the trick. seems a little crazy to run dos programs....

to put that simply, wine is a command in the shell now.
just try typing 'wine' to see the options. but to run a .exe you need to type 'wine' than the location of the .exe this is a fairly simple command and i doubt you will have any more trouble with it.[/code]

woah fork off a distro or build your own, that is going to be some work. i know of a linux from scratch for building your very own distro. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org try that out if you really want to. never have tried it, but thought about after my stint with RedHat fedora.

i would probably be able to help you. i have installed with VMware with a number of distros. first of all why did you make the drive so large to start. you can always add more space later. i started with 4 gb and only less than 3 are taken up. have you installed using VMware with a 20gb virtual ...

no this isn't a smart move at all. you dont have enough hard drive space. 800mb wont do the cut if you are looking for a desktop enviroment. if you just want to use the shell... then i still dont think there is enough space. but i agree... even if there is enough space. your specs are not fit for ...

no there is only a liveCD for the x86 arch. there is not one for classes like pentium4. These sub-directory's isos are package isos. package iso is not bootable. this is a very common error.

I found his mistake in another forum. xfsprogs is not in anyway related to ext2/ext3. XFS is its own filesystem and should probably not be used by most home computers. XFS is for fibre and high-end scsi drives.

I would like to know what the best cflags settings are as well. I have read too many conflicting things about them that I can not make a decision. What are the best cflags settings for Pentium 4?

okay thanks for all your help sylcoordinator. i got a plan now.

okay thanks for all your help NTFS still seems risky, but what do i have to lose in windows besides all my game saves. i'll think about it. thanks again

is fat32 the best choice for my shared partition? is there some other filesystem that works better? almost ready to install...

also i read somewhere that kernel 2.6 has the ability to read and write NTFS? is this true and does it work almost perfectly?

probably doesnt like something about the parititions you made. just a guess...

okay so i do not have to do anything. is it all right to have grub install in the MBR and is my partition table okay?

/dev/hda1 ntfs 40gb (windows XP)
/dev/hdb1 boot 32mb (boot)
/dev/hdb2 swap 1gb (swap)
/dev/hdb3 ext3 60gb (linux)
/dev/hdb4 fat32 all left over (shared) about 19gb

do you think ...

But will it still boot from hdb if i put my /boot partition on there? Won't it load up windows instead of gentoo than?

i am in knoppix right now. i think it makes sense that my partition table should be something like this

/dev/hda1 ntfs 40gb minus space of /boot (windows XP)
/dev/hda2 ext2 boot (boot)
/dev/hdb1 swap 1gb (swap)
/dev/hdb2 ext3 60gb (linux)
/dev/hdb3 fat32 19gb (shared)

forgot how big the boot ...

Well if i just have straight dhcp network can i boot from liveCD andinstall and use linux-ntfs? that would be great. Also on GRUB, I need to move my NTFS back a few sectors to make room for the /boot partition for grub, don't i?

Hmm.. i would use linux-NTFS if gentoo was installed right now but it isnt. the other way with imaging seems like a lot of work. I heard knoppix has linux-NTFS on it. could i burn a cd of knoppix then use that to resize my partition?
my other option is to leave my new hd like it is and put a new ...

How can I resize my NTFS parition before I install gentoo? I don't want to use PartitionMagic really or anything that costs money. What suggestion do you have? Thanks for any help

i have been following this documentation to install x and kde. i am running VM ware, so the XF86Config was pretty hard to configure. i wanted to make sure x server would run fine first. i am on package 16 of the 72 that came with emerge kde after emerge xfree. it has been about... 30 minutes so far ...

okay it is solved. i had to change the boot order in my cmos. VMware doesn't boot from CD before Hard-drive. Once I got to LiveCD i was fine.

i wish it was that simple. i already tried logging as root, it didn't help. It is saying my root is read only. when i type mount it comes back saying /dev/root on / type ext3 (ro, noatime)
when i go to write using nano, it says read-only file system which is directly related to this. any other ...

shouldn't i just be able to reboot with the livecd in and it will run from that rather than grub?

maybe
try that too i have never used 2.6

you need

kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.3 root=/dev/hda3

assuming you didnt use genkernel

check this quote out too

I promise you that this will produce a "bootable" kernel for you assuming all other things are in order. As for Grub...just follow the handbook to the letter and you will be fine. Do ...