partition set up

|the sys admin| · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Michigan

Uh, I don't know but I may have screwed it up

Anyways...I used cfdisk to partition a 4 gig hard drive for gentoo.

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My IDE setup
--hda=60gig WD--C:=2.45gigs-boot, windows install, D:=54gigs-data.
--hdc=4gig WD--hdc1=2gigs-boot, don't know what else, hdc5=700MB-swap, hdc6=1.3gigs-I don't know what is going here.
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Anyways, right now the bootstrap process is done, and right now it is emerging the system (emerge system). I don't know how much room I have left on the drive, as this is my FIRST ever install of Gentoo.

Does anyone have any idea?? Advice for the first install?? Any tips for the next install (next week)??

Thanks In Advance...
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rommel · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 3:30 am Post subject:

make boot 100mb , swap equal to or greater then the amount of ram you have and the rest as /

|the sys admin| · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Michigan

So, what I do is:
1)Run cfdisk
2)Delete ALL Partitions
3)Create a Primary Partition, 100MB, FRONT of drive, will become boot.
4)Create a Logical Partition, 700MB, Swap, Right after Boot.
5)Create a Logical Partition, the rest of the space, which will naturally come after the previous partitions.
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Well then, Gentoo will automatically figure out where things go??

If that's it, then thank you very much for the help rommel

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rommel · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 3:49 am Post subject:

or make all of them primary since your allowed 4 primary partitions on a hard drive...but in any case thats how i would partition the drive. and yes during the install gentoo will do what is needed...just follow the install instructions...the install txt on the website however left out editing modules.autoload before your first reboot so just remeber to add the nessesary modules to get your system up and running properly before you exit the installation and attempt the first boot

taskara · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 6:54 am Post subject:

gentoo will know where everything goes based on your /etc/fstab file

where you will specify your mount points for each partition.
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darktux · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 11:32 am Post subject:

I'd also advise to create a /home partition, like that if something goes really wrong, you'll always be able to retrieve your documents/personal stuff, as well as keep your preferences.

|the sys admin| · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Michigan

Well, once again thanks for the replies....now my had hurts from all the info (and I just got up).

Well....the install died last night so I'm gonna repartition and try next week.
I don't know anything about modules...so expect a question on that later on

Once again, Thank You

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taskara · Posted: Sun Nov 24, 2002 1:03 pm Post subject:

nps, I don't like modules, I prefer a monolithic kernel with everything built in directly

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|the sys admin| · n00b Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 42 Location: Michigan