[gentoo-user] 1st Install

[gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Mark Humphrey]

Hi there

I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1?




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Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
> know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
> it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1?
>

first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print 
everything, you should at least take some notes.
Read them again,  look out for other helpfull guides.
The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too.

After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your 
harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is 
your friend

Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into 
the free space, / and /boot.
Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions!
This will sometimes cause some very delicate problems.

After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides.

Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram.
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Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote:
>> Hi there
>>
>> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to
>> know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make
>> it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1?
>>
>
> first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print 
> everything, you should at least take some notes.
> Read them again,  look out for other helpfull guides.
> The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too.
>
> After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your 
> harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is 
> your friend
>
> Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into 
> the free space, / and /boot.

Don't you also need swap?  /boot is desirable, but not required.

> Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions!  This will
> sometimes cause some very delicate problems.
>
> After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides.
>
> Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram.

Very good advice.

Good luck,
allan
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Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Richard Fish]

Allan Gottlieb wrote:

>>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into 
>>the free space, / and /boot.
>>    
>>
>
>Don't you also need swap?  /boot is desirable, but not required.
>
>  
>

You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not
necessary here.  There may be some performance difference between a swap
partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days
when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares.

Be careful about /boot, many systems today still ship with borken LBA
implementations in BIOS that prevent access to cylinders above 8GB.  It
is *always* safest to have /boot, and to make it the first partition on
the disk.

-Richard

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Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 14 July 2005 21:22, Richard Fish wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> >>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions
> >> into the free space, / and /boot.
> >
> >Don't you also need swap?  /boot is desirable, but not required.
>
> You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not
> necessary here.  There may be some performance difference between a swap
> partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days
> when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares.

nope ;)

there is no difference between swapfile and swap with 2.6
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