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 4.43) id 1Dt90G-0006Ao-MH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:04:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6EJ3EHa019614; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 19:03:14 GMT Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.140.230]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6EIxY3Q001536 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 18:59:34 GMT Received: from localhost.localdomain (ool-4355e59d.dyn.optonline.net [67.85.229.157]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j6EIxgp2000033 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 5C1734F39E; Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 1st Install References: <42D67920.8050006@net-1.org> <200507141738.43899.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 14:59:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200507141738.43899.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (Volker Armin Hemmann's message of "Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) 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 X-Archives-Salt: 0a22b122-2d06-4f66-9b4d-79807016c6db X-Archives-Hash: eadd8c1498e0d9841f09cd15146e0acb At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list