Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install

[Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>]

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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