[gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[Hunter Jozwiak]

Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I
plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3
things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits. My
question, along with the safety of the installation over days is what
is the best way to unmount partitions?

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[Stefan G. Weichinger]

Am 08.05.2014 22:30, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:
> Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I
> plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3
> things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits. 

Depends on your experience.

An experienced gentoo user installs from scratch in maybe one or 2 hours
(following the installation docs, knowing his way, good internet access
... ).

> My
> question, along with the safety of the installation over days is what
> is the best way to unmount partitions?

This question sounds like you might need more than 2 hours.

I wonder if the answer is really "umount" ?

(aside from the discussion if you unmount partitions or filesystems)

Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[Hunter Jozwiak]

> On May 8, 2014, at 17:07, "Stefan G. Weichinger" <lists@xunil.at> wrote:
> 
> Am 08.05.2014 22:30, schrieb Hunter Jozwiak:
>> Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I
>> plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3
>> things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits.
> 
> Depends on your experience.
> 
> An experienced gentoo user installs from scratch in maybe one or 2 hours
> (following the installation docs, knowing his way, good internet access
> ... ).
> 
>> My
>> question, along with the safety of the installation over days is what
>> is the best way to unmount partitions?
> 
> This question sounds like you might need more than 2 hours.
> 
> I wonder if the answer is really "umount" ?
> 
> (aside from the discussion if you unmount partitions or filesystems)
> 
> Stefan

The install will exceed well over two hours. Installing espeakup and dependencies takes half a day at best. Sorry, I did mean umount.

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[Peter Humphrey]

On Thursday 08 May 2014 18:07:52 Hunter Jozwiak wrote:

> Sorry, I did mean umount.

I don't think you did. Umount is the (silly IMO) slight shorthand for unmount. 
Unmount is the action you describe in words, umount is the command you issue 
to the OS to achieve it.

-- 
Regards
Peter

Re: [gentoo-user] Planned Installation Steps

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 05/08/2014 04:30 PM, Hunter Jozwiak wrote:
> Hi all. Is it safe to install Gentoo in a course of days? Today, I
> plan to get the partitions set up, mounted, and get all the stage3
> things installed, maybe install the kernel if time permits. My
> question, along with the safety of the installation over days is what
> is the best way to unmount partitions?
> 

I think you're asking if it's safe to stop, unmount everything, shutdown
the machine, and then start where you left off? Yes, it is. That's
basically what we all do when we reboot for the first time and the
kernel can't find /dev/root.

Within the chroot, just type `exit` to escape the chroot. Then `cd` to
the root of the boot CD and `umount` everything in the opposite order. So,

  umount /mnt/gentoo/proc
  umount /mnt/gentoo/dev
  umount /mnt/gentoo/boot
  umount /mnt/gentoo

and any other partitions you have. Then shut it down.

The next day, boot to the CD, mount everything again, and then chroot in.