From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2XNG-0000mB-H2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:59:18 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6HHw36I030877; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:58:03 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6HHnIcf019114 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:18 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2448643CB for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28753-17 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2652C64435 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:49:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1G2XD2-0000WG-QW for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:48:47 +0200 Received: from www.buffer.net ([24.73.161.102]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:48:44 +0200 Received: from wireless by www.buffer.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:48:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] amd64 installation questions Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 17:48:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 24.73.161.102 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060616) Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.583 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.016, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.583 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: b45c6ec0-72f8-4dfd-b6d7-7bc4bf9e62fe X-Archives-Hash: be4ed278ffef209e513cb407ec5beac2 Hello, I've been handed a new amd64 portable (HP-8000), which must keep XP on it. To perform an installation, I usually use Partition Magic, which has worked very well to down-size the windoze partition. This system (suposedly) has another hidden partition that XP uses to restore the OS, if the XP installation ever get's corrupted. NO XP installation CD was provided. I was wondering if any of the opensource repartitioning tools have matured to the point I could used one of them in lieu of Partition Magic? In order to keep the XP installation: Does it matter if I setup Gentoo on the portable first, before going thru all of those windoze installation/initialization menus? Any wiki examples (gotchas) on xorg.conf or make.conf (as this is my first amd64 installation) are welcome. James -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list