* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2005-08-08 0:05 Johnathan Smith
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
smithj 05/08/08 00:05:39
Modified: xml/htdocs/doc/en altinstall.xml
Log:
added a paragraph under knoppix install about FEATURES=user{priv,sandbox}
Revision Changes Path
1.60 +10 -3 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.60&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.60&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml.diff?r1=1.59&r2=1.60&cvsroot=gentoo
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.59
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -r1.59 -r1.60
--- altinstall.xml 3 Jul 2005 10:32:30 -0000 1.59
+++ altinstall.xml 8 Aug 2005 00:05:39 -0000 1.60
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.59 2005/07/03 10:32:30 cam Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.60 2005/08/08 00:05:39 smithj Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
<license/>
-<version>0.64</version>
-<date>2005-06-23</date>
+<version>0.65</version>
+<date>2005-08-07</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -211,6 +211,13 @@
# <i>mount -o bind /proc /mnt/gentoo/proc</i>
</pre>
+<p>
+Also, know that some of portage's FEATURES will not work in knoppix. Especially
+watch out for <c>userpriv</c> and <c>usersandbox</c>. If you find yourself
+getting errors, it might be wise to disable some or all of the optional
+features.
+</p>
+
<!--
Commenting out due to #78716. If it needs to be restated again, note
that some will require to bind-mount it, others don't, and that you have
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-06-17 11:26 Jan Kundrat
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From: Jan Kundrat @ 2006-06-17 11:26 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
jkt 06/06/17 11:26:54
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
Added some <c>s, <path>s, s/iso/ISO/, s/portage/Portage/
Revision Changes Path
1.61 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.61&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.61&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml.diff?r1=1.60&r2=1.61&cvsroot=gentoo
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.60
retrieving revision 1.61
diff -u -r1.60 -r1.61
--- altinstall.xml 8 Aug 2005 00:05:39 -0000 1.60
+++ altinstall.xml 17 Jun 2006 11:26:53 -0000 1.61
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.60 2005/08/08 00:05:39 smithj Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.61 2006/06/17 11:26:53 jkt Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
<license/>
-<version>0.65</version>
+<version>0.66</version>
<date>2005-08-07</date>
<chapter>
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Also, know that some of portage's FEATURES will not work in knoppix. Especially
+Also, know that some of Portage's FEATURES will not work in knoppix. Especially
watch out for <c>userpriv</c> and <c>usersandbox</c>. If you find yourself
getting errors, it might be wise to disable some or all of the optional
features.
@@ -251,11 +251,11 @@
<body>
<p>
-Burn an Install CD iso.
+Burn an Install CD ISO.
</p>
<p>
-Get the latest portage snapshot from
+Get the latest Portage snapshot from
<uri>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/</uri>
(or your favorite <uri
link="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirror</uri>). Either place
@@ -267,12 +267,12 @@
Follow all instructions of the Gentoo Installation Handbook up to <c>chroot
/mnt/gentoo</c> in Chapter 6. If you only have one CD-ROM remember to use the
<c>docache</c> option while booting so you can unmount the Install CD and mount
-your portage snapshot CD.
+your Portage snapshot CD.
</p>
<p>
Open a new console (Alt-F2), we will continue with the Install Doc up to
-running the bootstrap.sh script.
+running the <c>bootstrap.sh</c> script.
</p>
<warn>
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@
<p>
Go back to the first console (Alt-F1, without chroot) and mount a second CD on
-<path>/mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2</path>. Copy the portage tarball from cdrom2 and
+<path>/mnt/gentoo/mnt/cdrom2</path>. Copy the Portage tarball from cdrom2 and
unpack it to <path>/mnt/gentoo/usr</path>.
</p>
@@ -296,9 +296,10 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Switch back to the F2 console. Now if you try to run bootstrap.sh it will fail
-because it won't be able to download any files. We will fetch these files
-somewhere else and put them in /usr/portage/distfiles (on F2 console).
+Switch back to the F2 console. Now if you try to run <c>bootstrap.sh</c> it will
+fail because it won't be able to download any files. We will fetch these files
+somewhere else and put them in <path>/usr/portage/distfiles</path> (on F2
+console).
</p>
<p>
@@ -307,7 +308,7 @@
</p>
<note>
-Note that you need the versions of each package synced with your portage tree.
+Note that you need the versions of each package synced with your Portage tree.
</note>
<pre caption="Getting the download listing">
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-07-21 7:38 Lukasz Damentko
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From: Lukasz Damentko @ 2006-07-21 7:38 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
rane 06/07/21 07:38:50
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
captions should start with a capital letter, no content changes
Revision Changes Path
1.62 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.62&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.62&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml.diff?r1=1.61&r2=1.62&cvsroot=gentoo
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.61
retrieving revision 1.62
diff -u -r1.61 -r1.62
--- altinstall.xml 17 Jun 2006 11:26:53 -0000 1.61
+++ altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 07:38:49 -0000 1.62
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.61 2006/06/17 11:26:53 jkt Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.62 2006/07/21 07:38:49 rane Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@
the rest of this howto we'll be working on the client 'eta'.
</p>
-<pre caption="directory setup">
+<pre caption="Directory setup">
# <i>mkdir /diskless</i>
# <i>mkdir /diskless/eta</i>
# <i>mkdir /diskless/eta/boot</i>
@@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
it's grub.lst config file.
</p>
-<pre caption="grub setup">
+<pre caption="Grub setup">
# <i>tar zxvf grub-0.92.tar.gz</i>
# <i>cd grub-0.92</i>
# <i>./configure --help</i>
@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@
directory.
</p>
-<pre caption="mounting the filesystem">
+<pre caption="Mounting the filesystem">
#<i> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo</i>
</pre>
@@ -517,7 +517,7 @@
extracting over your existing installation.
</warn>
-<pre caption="extracting the stage tarball">
+<pre caption="Extracting the stage tarball">
# <i>cd /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/</i>
# <i>tar -xvjpf /mnt/cdrom/gentoo/stage3-*.tar.bz2</i>
# <i>mount -t proc /proc /mnt/gentoo/diskless/eta/proc</i>
@@ -814,5 +814,4 @@
</body>
</section>
</chapter>
-
</guide>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-07-21 8:10 Lukasz Damentko
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From: Lukasz Damentko @ 2006-07-21 8:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
rane 06/07/21 08:10:19
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
rephrasing, no tarball was mounted, thanks to kucrut for reporting
Revision Changes Path
1.63 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.63&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo
plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.63&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo
diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml.diff?r1=1.62&r2=1.63&cvsroot=gentoo
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.62
retrieving revision 1.63
diff -u -r1.62 -r1.63
--- altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 07:38:49 -0000 1.62
+++ altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 08:10:19 -0000 1.63
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.62 2006/07/21 07:38:49 rane Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.63 2006/07/21 08:10:19 rane Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@
<license/>
-<version>0.66</version>
-<date>2005-08-07</date>
+<version>0.67</version>
+<date>2006-07-20</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -638,7 +638,7 @@
<p>
We will first allocate a partition to Gentoo by resizing our existing Linux
-partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball that is mounted, chroot
+partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball to the partition that is mounted, chroot
inside the pseudo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap process is
done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to make sure it
boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-07-21 15:42 Lukasz Damentko
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
rane 06/07/21 15:42:00
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
added <c>s and <path>s where necessary
Revision Changes Path
1.64 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.64&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.64&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?r1=1.63&r2=1.64
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.63
retrieving revision 1.64
diff -u -r1.63 -r1.64
--- altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 08:10:19 -0000 1.63
+++ altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 15:42:00 -0000 1.64
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.63 2006/07/21 08:10:19 rane Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.64 2006/07/21 15:42:00 rane Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -46,13 +46,14 @@
<mail link="smithj@gentoo.org">Jonathan Smith</mail>
</author>
-
<abstract>
This HOWTO is meant to be a repository of alternative Gentoo installation
methods, for those with special installation needs such as lack of a cdrom
or a computer that can't boot cds.
</abstract>
+<!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license -->
+<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
<version>0.67</version>
@@ -132,7 +133,7 @@
</pre>
<note>
-Replace fd0 with your respective floppy device name if yours is different.
+Replace <path>fd0</path> with your respective floppy device name if yours is different.
</note>
<p>
@@ -190,7 +191,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a konsole and <c>su -</c>
+By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a <c>konsole</c> and <c>su -</c>
so you can change your password. This lets you set the root password for
Knoppix. You can now configure <c>sshd</c> for remote login, at your
preference.
@@ -391,7 +392,7 @@
<note>
This provide a static IP address for the client and the path of a PXE boot
-image, here pxegrub. You have to replace the MAC address of the Ethernet card
+image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the Ethernet card
of the client and the directory where you will put the client files with the
one you use.
</note>
@@ -431,7 +432,7 @@
place the tarball in <path>/usr/portage/distfiles</path>). Copy the tarball to
<path>/diskless</path> and then build it to make the pxe capable binary. Once
the binary is built, copy it to the diskless client's boot directory. Then edit
-it's grub.lst config file.
+it's <path>grub.lst</path> config file.
</p>
<pre caption="Grub setup">
@@ -495,8 +496,8 @@
Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
install procedure as explained in the Gentoo Install Howto BUT with the
following differences:
-When you mount the file system, do the following (where hdaX is the partition
-where you created the /diskless directory). You do not need to mount any other
+When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is the partition
+where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do not need to mount any other
partitions as all of the files will reside in the <path>/diskless/eta</path>
directory.
</p>
@@ -652,7 +653,7 @@
<p>
The root partition is the filesystem mounted under <path>/</path>. A quick run
-of mount on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use df (disk
+of <c>mount</c> on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use <c>df</c> (disk
free) to see how much space I have left and how I will be resizing. Note that
it is not mandatory to resize your root partition! You could be resizing
anything else supported by our resizer, but let's talk about that later.
@@ -742,7 +743,7 @@
<p>
We will now proceed with the build of parted. If it's not already downloaded
-and untarred, do so now and cd into the corresponding directory. Now run the
+and untarred, do so now and <c>cd</c> into the corresponding directory. Now run the
following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy disk.
</p>
@@ -758,8 +759,8 @@
The resize should take under 30 minutes for the largest hard-drives, be
patient. Reboot your system with the mininux boot disk (just pop it inside),
and once you are logged in, switch the disk in the drive with your utility disk
-we have created above and type mount /dev/fd0 /floppy to have parted under
-/floppy. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your
+we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted under
+<path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your
partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the real fun,
by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. Drive you
wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want to resize. For
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-07-22 8:09 Lukasz Damentko
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From: Lukasz Damentko @ 2006-07-22 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
rane 06/07/22 08:09:00
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
we have no Gentoo Install Howto anymore, linking to the handbook instead
Revision Changes Path
1.65 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.65&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.65&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?r1=1.64&r2=1.65
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.64
retrieving revision 1.65
diff -u -r1.64 -r1.65
--- altinstall.xml 21 Jul 2006 15:42:00 -0000 1.64
+++ altinstall.xml 22 Jul 2006 08:08:59 -0000 1.65
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.64 2006/07/21 15:42:00 rane Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.65 2006/07/22 08:08:59 rane Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.67</version>
-<date>2006-07-20</date>
+<version>0.68</version>
+<date>2006-07-21</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@
</p>
<p>
-Follow all instructions of the Gentoo Installation Handbook up to <c>chroot
+Follow all instructions of the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook">Gentoo Installation Handbook</uri> up to <c>chroot
/mnt/gentoo</c> in Chapter 6. If you only have one CD-ROM remember to use the
<c>docache</c> option while booting so you can unmount the Install CD and mount
your Portage snapshot CD.
@@ -494,7 +494,7 @@
You might want to reboot the server with a Gentoo Install CD, although you can
very well continue immediately if you know how to proceed with the Gentoo
Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
-install procedure as explained in the Gentoo Install Howto BUT with the
+install procedure as explained in the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook/">Gentoo Handbook</uri> BUT with the
following differences:
When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is the partition
where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do not need to mount any other
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-07-22 10:10 Lukasz Damentko
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From: Lukasz Damentko @ 2006-07-22 10:10 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
rane 06/07/22 10:10:41
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
hda3 -> hdaX, thanks to kucrut for reporting
Revision Changes Path
1.66 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
file : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.66&view=markup
plain: http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?rev=1.66&content-type=text/plain
diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?r1=1.65&r2=1.66
Index: altinstall.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.65
retrieving revision 1.66
diff -u -r1.65 -r1.66
--- altinstall.xml 22 Jul 2006 08:08:59 -0000 1.65
+++ altinstall.xml 22 Jul 2006 10:10:41 -0000 1.66
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.65 2006/07/22 08:08:59 rane Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.66 2006/07/22 10:10:41 rane Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.68</version>
+<version>0.69</version>
<date>2006-07-21</date>
<chapter>
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@
</p>
<pre caption="Mounting the filesystem">
-#<i> mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo</i>
+#<i> mount /dev/hdaX /mnt/gentoo</i>
</pre>
<p>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-09-17 9:41 Xavier Neys
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From: Xavier Neys @ 2006-09-17 9:41 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
neysx 06/09/17 09:41:30
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
#147869 Typo fixes, no content change
Revision Changes Path
1.67 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff -u -r1.66 -r1.67
--- altinstall.xml 22 Jul 2006 10:10:41 -0000 1.66
+++ altinstall.xml 17 Sep 2006 09:41:30 -0000 1.67
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.66 2006/07/22 10:10:41 rane Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.67 2006/09/17 09:41:30 neysx Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@
<uri>http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/</uri>
(or your favorite <uri
link="http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/mirrors.xml">mirror</uri>). Either place
-this tarball on an existing partition on the computer your are installing to,
+this tarball on an existing partition on the computer you are installing to,
or burn it to a CD.
</p>
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@
<p>
Setup NFS: NFS is quite easy to configure. The only thing you have to do is to
-add a line on the <path>/etc/exports</path> config file :
+add a line on the <path>/etc/exports</path> config file:
</p>
<pre caption="/etc/exports">
@@ -473,7 +473,7 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Update your hosts: One important thing to do now is to modify your
+Update your hosts: One important thing to do now is to modify your
<path>/etc/hosts</path> file to fit your needs.
</p>
@@ -675,7 +675,7 @@
As we can see, the partition mounted as <path>/</path> named
<path>/dev/hdb2</path> has 2.4 gigabytes free. In my case, I think I will
resize it as to leave 400Megs free of space, therefore allocating 2 gigabytes
-for Gentoo. Not bad, I could have quite some stuff installed. However, think
+for Gentoo. Not bad, I could have quite some stuff installed. However, I think
that even one gigabyte is enough for most users. So let's partition this thing!
</p>
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@
</p>
<note>
-There are other tools for doing resize of partitions as well, but author is
+There are other tools for doing resize of partitions as well, but the author is
unsure/uninterested whether PartitionMagic(tm) or other software of the kind do
the job. It's the reader's job to check them out
</note>
@@ -727,8 +727,8 @@
<note>
Note again that Linux is synonym of "There's one more way to do it". Your
objective is to run parted on an unmounted partition so it can do its work. You
-might use some other boot/root diskset other than mininux. You might not even
-need to do this step at all, that is only umount the filesystem you want to
+might use some boot/root diskset other than mininux. You might not even
+need to do this step at all, ie. you might only have umount the filesystem you want to
repartition in your Linux session and run parted on it.
</note>
@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted under
<path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your
partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the real fun,
-by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. Drive you
+by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. The drive you
wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want to resize. For
example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda
</p>
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@
</pre>
<impo>
-Be patient! The computer is working! Just look at the hardware LED on your case
+Be patient! The computer is working! Just look at the harddrive LED on your case
to see that it is really working. This should take between 2 and 30 minutes.
</impo>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2006-11-17 7:45 Josh Saddler
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
nightmorph 06/11/17 07:45:55
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
updated altinstall guide for the grub netboot USE flag, bug 141290
Revision Changes Path
1.68 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff -u -r1.67 -r1.68
--- altinstall.xml 17 Sep 2006 09:41:30 -0000 1.67
+++ altinstall.xml 17 Nov 2006 07:45:55 -0000 1.68
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.67 2006/09/17 09:41:30 neysx Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.68 2006/11/17 07:45:55 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.69</version>
-<date>2006-07-21</date>
+<version>0.70</version>
+<date>2006-11-16</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -426,26 +426,15 @@
</pre>
<p>
-Setup GRUB: To provide PXE booting I use GRUB. You have to compile it by
-yourself to enable the PXE image compilation ... but that's quite easy. First,
-get the latest version of the GRUB source code (<c>emerge -f grub</c> will
-place the tarball in <path>/usr/portage/distfiles</path>). Copy the tarball to
-<path>/diskless</path> and then build it to make the pxe capable binary. Once
-the binary is built, copy it to the diskless client's boot directory. Then edit
-it's <path>grub.lst</path> config file.
+Setup GRUB: To provide PXE booting I use GRUB with the <c>netboot</c> USE flag
+enabled. Once GRUB is compiled, copy the PXE image to the diskless client's
+boot directory. Then edit its <path>grub.lst</path> config file.
</p>
<pre caption="Grub setup">
-# <i>tar zxvf grub-0.92.tar.gz</i>
-# <i>cd grub-0.92</i>
-# <i>./configure --help</i>
-<comment>(In the options you will see a list of supported network interface drivers.
- Select the driver compatible with your client's network card. Herein referenced
- as $nic)</comment>
-# <i>./configure --enable-diskless --enable-$nic</i>
-# <i>make</i>
-# <i>cd stage2</i>
-# <i>cp pxegrub /diskless/eta/boot/pxegrub</i>
+# <i>echo "sys-boot/grub netboot" >> /etc/portage/package.use"</i>
+# <i>emerge -av grub</i>
+# <i>cp /usr/lib/grub/pxegrub /diskless/eta/boot/pxegrub</i>
# <i>nano -w /diskless/eta/boot/grub.lst</i>
</pre>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2007-04-03 18:20 Jan Kundrat
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
jkt 07/04/03 18:20:23
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
#173261, extra " at the end of command. Fixing all translations -> no revbump
Revision Changes Path
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diff -u -r1.71 -r1.72
--- altinstall.xml 23 Feb 2007 11:21:59 -0000 1.71
+++ altinstall.xml 3 Apr 2007 18:20:23 -0000 1.72
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.71 2007/02/23 11:21:59 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.72 2007/04/03 18:20:23 jkt Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@
</p>
<pre caption="Grub setup">
-# <i>echo "sys-boot/grub netboot" >> /etc/portage/package.use"</i>
+# <i>echo "sys-boot/grub netboot" >> /etc/portage/package.use</i>
# <i>emerge -av grub</i>
# <i>cp /usr/lib/grub/pxegrub /diskless/eta/boot/pxegrub</i>
# <i>nano -w /diskless/eta/boot/grub.lst</i>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2007-09-20 18:36 Josh Saddler
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From: Josh Saddler @ 2007-09-20 18:36 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-doc-cvs
nightmorph 07/09/20 18:36:49
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
added noop for bug 190598
Revision Changes Path
1.73 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff -u -r1.72 -r1.73
--- altinstall.xml 3 Apr 2007 18:20:23 -0000 1.72
+++ altinstall.xml 20 Sep 2007 18:36:49 -0000 1.73
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.72 2007/04/03 18:20:23 jkt Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.73 2007/09/20 18:36:49 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.71</version>
-<date>2007-02-23</date>
+<version>0.72</version>
+<date>2007-09-20</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -309,6 +309,17 @@
</pre>
<p>
+Next you'll need to configure your interface in <path>/etc/conf.d/net</path> so
+that it doesn't get cleared at bootup. See <path>/etc/conf.d/net.example</path>
+for more information.
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="/etc/conf.d/net">
+<comment>(Replace eth0 with the correct interface)</comment>
+config_eth0=( "noop" )
+</pre>
+
+<p>
For TFTP, emerge <c>app-admin/tftp-hpa</c>. In
<path>/etc/conf.d/in.tftpd</path>, put the following :
</p>
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
jkt 08/01/09 20:36:44
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
#205074, typo in file names
Revision Changes Path
1.74 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff -u -r1.73 -r1.74
--- altinstall.xml 20 Sep 2007 18:36:49 -0000 1.73
+++ altinstall.xml 9 Jan 2008 20:36:44 -0000 1.74
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.73 2007/09/20 18:36:49 nightmorph Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.74 2008/01/09 20:36:44 jkt Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -56,8 +56,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.72</version>
-<date>2007-09-20</date>
+<version>0.73</version>
+<date>2008-01-09</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -294,10 +294,10 @@
<p>
For DHCPd, run <c>emerge dhcp</c> (or any other DHCP server of your choice).
Make sure that the correct interface is selected in
-<path>/etc/conf.d/dhcp</path>.
+<path>/etc/conf.d/dhcpd</path>.
</p>
-<pre caption="dhcp.conf">
+<pre caption="dhcpd.conf">
option option-150 code 150 = text ;
ddns-update-style none ;
host eta {
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* [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
@ 2008-05-23 20:29 Sven Vermeulen
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
swift 08/05/23 20:29:44
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
Coding style
Revision Changes Path
1.75 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff -u -r1.74 -r1.75
--- altinstall.xml 9 Jan 2008 20:36:44 -0000 1.74
+++ altinstall.xml 23 May 2008 20:29:44 -0000 1.75
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.74 2008/01/09 20:36:44 jkt Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.75 2008/05/23 20:29:44 swift Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
<body>
<p>
-Download Smart BootManager available from
+Download Smart BootManager available from
<uri>http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html</uri>.
Linux source or binary format and windows .exe versions are available as well
as many language packs. However, at this time, the preferred method would be to
@@ -102,16 +102,16 @@
sbminst [-t theme] [-d drv] [-b backup_file] [-u backup_file]
-t theme select the theme to be used, in which the theme could be:
- us = English theme de = German theme
- hu = Hungarian theme zh = Chinese theme
+ us = English theme de = German theme
+ hu = Hungarian theme zh = Chinese theme
ru = Russian theme cz = Czech theme
- es = Spanish theme fr = French theme
- pt = Portuguese theme
+ es = Spanish theme fr = French theme
+ pt = Portuguese theme
+
-
-d drv set the drive that you want to install Smart BootManager on;
for Linux:
- /dev/fd0 is the first floppy driver,
+ /dev/fd0 is the first floppy driver,
/dev/hda is the first IDE harddisk driver.
/dev/sda is the first SCSI harddisk driver.
for DOS:
@@ -133,7 +133,8 @@
</pre>
<note>
-Replace <path>fd0</path> with your respective floppy device name if yours is different.
+Replace <path>fd0</path> with your respective floppy device name if yours is
+different.
</note>
<p>
@@ -163,7 +164,7 @@
<body>
<note>
-Knoppix is only available for x86 users.
+Knoppix is only available for x86 users.
</note>
<!-- this works with knoppix 3.6+ and gentoo 2004.3, 2005.0-->
@@ -191,8 +192,8 @@
</p>
<p>
-By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a <c>konsole</c> and <c>su -</c>
-so you can change your password. This lets you set the root password for
+By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a <c>konsole</c> and <c>su
+-</c> so you can change your password. This lets you set the root password for
Knoppix. You can now configure <c>sshd</c> for remote login, at your
preference.
</p>
@@ -219,11 +220,11 @@
features.
</p>
-<!--
+<!--
Commenting out due to #78716. If it needs to be restated again, note
that some will require to bind-mount it, others don't, and that you have
a 50-50 chance of winning the gold strike.
-
+
<p>
You will also need to bind-mount the device tree to resolve permission issues
@@ -286,9 +287,9 @@
<note>
This provide a static IP address for the client and the path of a PXE boot
-image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the Ethernet card
-of the client and the directory where you will put the client files with the
-one you use.
+image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the
+Ethernet card of the client and the directory where you will put the client
+files with the one you use.
</note>
<p>
@@ -385,15 +386,15 @@
<body>
<p>
-You might want to reboot the server with a Gentoo Install CD, although you can
-very well continue immediately if you know how to proceed with the Gentoo
-Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
-install procedure as explained in the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook/">Gentoo Handbook</uri> BUT with the
-following differences:
-When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is the partition
-where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do not need to mount any other
-partitions as all of the files will reside in the <path>/diskless/eta</path>
-directory.
+You might want to reboot the server with a Gentoo Install CD, although you can
+very well continue immediately if you know how to proceed with the Gentoo
+Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
+install procedure as explained in the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook/">Gentoo
+Handbook</uri> BUT with the following differences:
+When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is
+the partition where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do
+not need to mount any other partitions as all of the files will reside in the
+<path>/diskless/eta</path> directory.
</p>
<pre caption="Mounting the filesystem">
@@ -449,7 +450,7 @@
<p>
Save the kernel in your chrooted <path>/</path> (not in <path>/boot</path>)
-according to the pxegrub setting defined earlier. Next configure your
+according to the pxegrub setting defined earlier. Next configure your
diskless client's <path>/etc/fstab</path>.
</p>
@@ -511,7 +512,7 @@
</chapter>
<chapter>
-<title>Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution</title>
+<title>Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution</title>
<section>
<title>Requirements</title>
<body>
@@ -533,10 +534,10 @@
<p>
We will first allocate a partition to Gentoo by resizing our existing Linux
-partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball to the partition that is mounted, chroot
-inside the pseudo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap process is
-done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to make sure it
-boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
+partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball to the partition that is
+mounted, chroot inside the pseudo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap
+process is done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to
+make sure it boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
</p>
</body>
@@ -547,10 +548,11 @@
<p>
The root partition is the filesystem mounted under <path>/</path>. A quick run
-of <c>mount</c> on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use <c>df</c> (disk
-free) to see how much space I have left and how I will be resizing. Note that
-it is not mandatory to resize your root partition! You could be resizing
-anything else supported by our resizer, but let's talk about that later.
+of <c>mount</c> on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use
+<c>df</c> (disk free) to see how much space I have left and how I will be
+resizing. Note that it is not mandatory to resize your root partition! You
+could be resizing anything else supported by our resizer, but let's talk about
+that later.
</p>
<pre caption="Filesystem information">
@@ -560,9 +562,9 @@
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec)
# <i>df -h </i>
-Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
+Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb2 4.0G 1.9G 2.4G 82% /
-none 38M 0 38M 0% /dev/shm
+none 38M 0 38M 0% /dev/shm
</pre>
<p>
@@ -576,7 +578,7 @@
</body>
</section>
<section>
-<title>Building parted to resize partition</title>
+<title>Building parted to resize partition</title>
<body>
<p>
@@ -590,10 +592,10 @@
<note>
There are other tools for doing resize of partitions as well, but the author is
unsure/uninterested whether PartitionMagic(tm) or other software of the kind do
-the job. It's the reader's job to check them out
+the job. It's the reader's job to check them out
</note>
-<p>
+<p>
Look up on that page the type of filesystem you want to resize and see if
parted can do it. If not, you're out of luck, you will have to destroy some
partition to make space for Gentoo, and reinstall back. Go ahead by downloading
@@ -622,8 +624,8 @@
Note again that Linux is synonym of "There's one more way to do it". Your
objective is to run parted on an unmounted partition so it can do its work. You
might use some boot/root diskset other than mininux. You might not even
-need to do this step at all, ie. you might only have umount the filesystem you want to
-repartition in your Linux session and run parted on it.
+need to do this step at all, ie. you might only have umount the filesystem you
+want to repartition in your Linux session and run parted on it.
</note>
<pre caption="Utility disk creation">
@@ -637,13 +639,14 @@
<p>
We will now proceed with the build of parted. If it's not already downloaded
-and untarred, do so now and <c>cd</c> into the corresponding directory. Now run the
-following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy disk.
+and untarred, do so now and <c>cd</c> into the corresponding directory. Now run
+the following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy
+disk.
</p>
<pre caption="Building the utility floppy">
-# <i> mkdir /floppy; mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy &&
-export CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -static" && ./configure
+# <i> mkdir /floppy; mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy &&
+export CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -static" && ./configure
&& make && cp parted/parted /floppy && umount /floppy </i>
</pre>
@@ -653,12 +656,12 @@
The resize should take under 30 minutes for the largest hard-drives, be
patient. Reboot your system with the mininux boot disk (just pop it inside),
and once you are logged in, switch the disk in the drive with your utility disk
-we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted under
-<path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your
-partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the real fun,
-by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. The drive you
-wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want to resize. For
-example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda
+we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted
+under <path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to
+resize your partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the
+real fun, by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now.
+The drive you wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want
+to resize. For example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda.
</p>
<pre caption="Commands to run once logged into mininux system">
@@ -668,12 +671,12 @@
Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-9787.148 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
-1 0.031 2953.125 primary ntfs
-3 2953.125 3133.265 primary linux-swap
-2 3133.266 5633.085 primary ext3
-4 5633.086 9787.148 extended
-5 5633.117 6633.210 logical
-6 6633.242 9787.148 logical ext3
+1 0.031 2953.125 primary ntfs
+3 2953.125 3133.265 primary linux-swap
+2 3133.266 5633.085 primary ext3
+4 5633.086 9787.148 extended
+5 5633.117 6633.210 logical
+6 6633.242 9787.148 logical ext3
(parted) <i> help resize </i>
resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR
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To: gentoo-doc-cvs
nightmorph 08/09/10 23:04:29
Modified: altinstall.xml
Log:
patch from bug 232410
Revision Changes Path
1.76 xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml
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diff : http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml?r1=1.75&r2=1.76
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.75
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diff -u -r1.75 -r1.76
--- altinstall.xml 23 May 2008 20:29:44 -0000 1.75
+++ altinstall.xml 10 Sep 2008 23:04:29 -0000 1.76
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.75 2008/05/23 20:29:44 swift Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.76 2008/09/10 23:04:29 nightmorph Exp $ -->
<!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
<guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@
<author title="Editor">
<mail link="smithj@gentoo.org">Jonathan Smith</mail>
</author>
+<author title="Editor">
+ <mail link="nightmorph"/>
+</author>
<abstract>
This HOWTO is meant to be a repository of alternative Gentoo installation
@@ -56,8 +59,8 @@
<!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 -->
<license/>
-<version>0.73</version>
-<date>2008-01-09</date>
+<version>1</version>
+<date>2008-09-10</date>
<chapter>
<title>About this document</title>
@@ -280,24 +283,23 @@
<p>
DHCP and TFTP setup: The client will get boot informations using DHCP and
-download all the required files using TFTP. Just emerge DHCP and configure it
-for your basic needs. Then, add the following on
-<path>/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf</path>.
+download all the required files using TFTP.
+</p>
+
+<p>
+For dhcpd, just run <c>emerge dhcp</c> (or any other DHCP server of your
+choice). Make sure that the correct interface is selected in
+<path>/etc/conf.d/dhcpd</path>, and configure it for your basic needs. Then, add
+the following on <path>/etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf</path>.
</p>
<note>
-This provide a static IP address for the client and the path of a PXE boot
+This provides a static IP address for the client and the path of a PXE boot
image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the
-Ethernet card of the client and the directory where you will put the client
+ethernet card of the client and the directory where you will put the client
files with the one you use.
</note>
-<p>
-For DHCPd, run <c>emerge dhcp</c> (or any other DHCP server of your choice).
-Make sure that the correct interface is selected in
-<path>/etc/conf.d/dhcpd</path>.
-</p>
-
<pre caption="dhcpd.conf">
option option-150 code 150 = text ;
ddns-update-style none ;
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