From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:35:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140904123528.GE7483@syscon7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ1xhMUik8XNfDmh1297HoMgpAmKcnXyJCuoBFe2XONfXaH=iw@mail.gmail.com>
On 09/04/14 09:53, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 7:30 AM, Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a new SSD 480GB drive and I'm trying to partition it. It was some
>> time before I went through this so I found this information:
>> http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/SSD
>>
>> But they omitted the Boot partition.
>> Device Start End Size Type
>> /dev/sda1 2048 6143 2M BIOS boot partition
>> /dev/sda2 6144 4200447 2G Linux swap
>> /dev/sda3 4200448 117231374 53.9G Linux filesystem
>>
>> There is Bios Boot 2MB but no Boot partition where kernel is located.
>>
>> The instruction from official Gentoo web-page is difference from display I'm
>> getting on my screen when I use "fdisk"
>> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=1&chap=4
>>
>> I don't have an option of extended partition not can I make Boot partition
>> /dev/sda2 (128MB) bootable by pressing "a" in fdisk.
>>
>> --
>> Joseph
>>
>
>While not an SSD user, I too had to set up gentoo from scratch on a
>laptop recently. I followed the disk partitioning instructions given
>in the handbook, with the following partitions created:
>
>Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/sda1 1 3 5198+ ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
>/dev/sda2 * 3 14 105808+ 83 Linux
>/dev/sda3 15 81 506520 82 Linux swap
>/dev/sda4 82 3876 28690200 83 Linux
I think this is an example like in the handbook, the problem is the gpt partition printout will look slightly different, so I got confused at the beginning.
What I have noticed is that these example don't show creating partition for "home' I think home now is on root partition sda4.
--
Joseph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-04 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-04 4:30 [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions Joseph
2014-09-04 6:53 ` Alexander Kapshuk
2014-09-04 12:35 ` Joseph [this message]
2014-09-04 7:01 ` Christian Kruse
2014-09-04 7:46 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-04 7:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-04 13:05 ` Joseph
2014-09-04 13:29 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-04 13:54 ` Joseph
2014-09-04 13:57 ` J. Roeleveld
2014-09-04 14:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2014-09-04 15:53 ` [gentoo-user] " James
2014-09-04 17:00 ` Jc García
2014-09-05 12:23 ` James
2014-09-05 13:39 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-05 14:04 ` James
2014-09-05 14:28 ` Jc García
2014-09-05 14:55 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-05 14:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-06 0:49 ` Rich Freeman
2014-09-04 14:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Rich Freeman
2014-09-04 14:52 ` Tom H
2014-09-04 20:05 ` Håkon Alstadheim
2014-09-04 20:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-05 2:44 ` Daniel Frey
2014-09-06 9:29 ` Håkon Alstadheim
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