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TheHaas
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 Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:10 pm Post subject: Pre-install questions |
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I've been a long-time SuSE user (> 4 years) but have not been happy with the last few versions of it. This week, I tried to to an ftp upgrade to 8.0, and it did not go well at all. Now Yast is giving me conflicting versioning, and printing doesn't work. I can't go back, nor can I go forward via the ftp install. So, either I have to buy a distro I don't want, or start from scratch. I'm choosing to start again, and this time (hopefully) with Gentoo.
Now, here are my questions:
I have three physical drive on this box -- one contains /, another /home, and the other /usr/local. Obviously, I have a lot of data on /home and /usr/local. Gentoo will not force me to fdisk /home and /usr/local, will it?
I have some configs (postfix, hdparm startup script, etc) that took me a long time to create and I don't want to have to do it again. Will Gentoo let me just put those configs into place?
Sorry about asking what may seem like silly questions, but I didn't find this kind of info anywhere in the (otherwise excellent) install documentation. |
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fghellar
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:21 pm Post subject: Re: Pre-install questions |
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| TheHaas wrote: | | I have three physical drive on this box -- one contains /, another /home, and the other /usr/local. Obviously, I have a lot of data on /home and /usr/local. Gentoo will not force me to fdisk /home and /usr/local, will it? |
Nobody will force you to do anything.
| TheHaas wrote: | | I have some configs (postfix, hdparm startup script, etc) that took me a long time to create and I don't want to have to do it again. Will Gentoo let me just put those configs into place? |
Yes.
| TheHaas wrote: | | I didn't find this kind of info anywhere in the (otherwise excellent) install documentation. |
For your first question: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/build.xml#doc_chap7.
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Xaanin
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Pre-install questions |
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| TheHaas wrote: | I
I have three physical drive on this box -- one contains /, another /home, and the other /usr/local. Obviously, I have a lot of data on /home and /usr/local. Gentoo will not force me to fdisk /home and /usr/local, will it?
I have some configs (postfix, hdparm startup script, etc) that took me a long time to create and I don't want to have to do it again. Will Gentoo let me just put those configs into place?
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1. No, gentoo will not force you to do anything with your /home or /usr/local partition. Though I would recommend splitting the / partition into three partitions containing /, /boot and a swap partition (maybe you got a swap partition already).
2. Yes, just remember to back them up on the /home or /usr/local disk so they don't get wiped away. After installing Gentoo place them in /etc/init.d and do
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rc-update add filename default
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Good luck with installing Gentoo. |
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TheHaas
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| Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2002 6:37 pm Post subject: Re: Pre-install questions |
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| Xaanin wrote: |
1. No, gentoo will not force you to do anything with your /home or /usr/local partition. Though I would recommend splitting the / partition into three partitions containing /, /boot and a swap partition (maybe you got a swap partition already).
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Yep, already do. But I also have a another smaller partition (former /home) that I need to get out of there. And putting in a /boot paritition is on my plan.
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2. Yes, just remember to back them up on the /home or /usr/local disk so they don't get wiped away. After installing Gentoo place them in /etc/init.d and do
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rc-update add filename default
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Already started that process. =) I just have to remember them all . . .
Thanks to fghellar and Xaanin for the advice. |
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