From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-user+bounces-158339-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16A013877A for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:35:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 242EAE0850; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:35:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail146c7.megamailservers.com (mail768.megamailservers.com [69.49.98.78]) (using TLSv1.1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F90DE0837 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:35:22 +0000 (UTC) X-POP-User: admin@sys-concept.com X-VIP: 69.49.109.100 Received: from syscon7.localdomain (S01060050da7ae68c.ed.shawcable.net [68.149.90.13]) by mail146c7.megamailservers.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id s84CZJIF021962 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 08:35:21 -0400 Received: by syscon7.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 725C020027C; Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:35:28 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 06:35:28 -0600 From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new installation - partitions Message-ID: <20140904123528.GE7483@syscon7> References: <20140904043032.GD7483@syscon7> <CAJ1xhMUik8XNfDmh1297HoMgpAmKcnXyJCuoBFe2XONfXaH=iw@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <CAJ1xhMUik8XNfDmh1297HoMgpAmKcnXyJCuoBFe2XONfXaH=iw@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020208.54085C89.00D2,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-CTCH-VOD: Unknown X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown X-CTCH-Score: 0.000 X-CTCH-Rules: X-CTCH-Flags: 0 X-CTCH-ScoreCust: 0.000 X-CSC: 0 X-CHA: v=2.1 cv=Tqzf2lnh c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:117 a=C3ZDv51cNVt4vJz/79I2xQ==:17 a=SDcUNfBxAAAA:8 a=BDKbP5mgAAAA:8 a=Unq3plm5DvEA:10 a=M1kyBYkWWGkA:10 a=AFRrC095_iMA:10 a=4551mSReTEoA:10 a=nDghuxUhq_wA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=7mOBRU54AAAA:8 a=ih_5QR_WaIjEyjpuFuAA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 X-Archives-Salt: 24a2a4c9-7cfc-48b1-8d98-d6aa70fa2b18 X-Archives-Hash: a5ebc8b137b4e39c019d99d71f8b614c 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