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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dual Linux install
Date: Mon Feb  5 15:13:02 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A7F1F3A.A3DF788A@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98138587401@molly3.emumail.net

rparkiso@pacbell.net wrote:

> Hi,
>    Here is my situation.  I am new to gentoo.  I am trying to install
> gentoo on my system.  I have two IDE disk drives. Drive 2 has Mandrake
> 7.1.  It contains a /boot partition (hdb0) with grub installed there.
> Currently the MBR of the disk one (hda) is setup with BootMagic to
> install Windows or Linux Mandrake.  I have made one reiserfs partition on
> drive 1 (hda8).  I want to install gentoo onto that partiton.
>
> 1.  Can I use the /boot (hdb0) partition with both Mandrake and gentoo? How?
>
> 2.  After I untar sys.tbz2 there does not seem to be a kernel in
> /usr/src/linux and I cannot find a bootable kernel with a System.map.

The kernel sources are not installed by default. You must copy the linux-source
package to your
gentoo partition, chroot there and run

pkgmerge linux-source....

Then you can build a kernel.

Of cause there is a default kernel installed in /boot/boot/bzImage

>
>
> 3.  I also do not understand what I need in the config modules.  Could
> someone send a sample of this file?

You mead /etc/rc.d/config/modules ?
If so just add your required modules with parameters if neede there.

achim~

>
>
> I know that you are busy, so answer this when you can, no hurry.
>
> Thank You
> Ron
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      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-05 22:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-05  8:11 [gentoo-dev] Dual Linux install rparkiso
2001-02-05 15:13 ` Achim Gottinger [this message]

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