Re: [gentoo-dev] help_installation

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> 1)For example, it does not tell us how to make " reiser" or "ext2" file
> format.  I did make partitionns using
>   'fdisk', but don't know the way to format it.
so, you've fdisk'd all your partitions to be the sizes you want. Now, to make a reiserfs partition, just do:

mkreiserfs /dev/hda1

or the equivalent depending on which paritions you'd like to filesystemize. :)


> 2) It says " mount your root/boot to '/mnt/gentoo, /mnt/gentoo/boot",
> but it does NOT show how to do it.

let's say your root filesystem is hda1. to mount that to /mnt/gentoo, make sure that /mnt/gentoo exists (if not, mkdir -p /mnt/gentoo) and do:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo/boot

again, i'm assuming that hda1 is your root partition and hda2 is your boot. you'll surely going to need to fix those numbers for your specific install.

hope that helps out. if not, drop by #gentoo on the openprojects irc network (irc.linux.com, irc.debian.org, etc.)