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Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 18:27:48 -0500
Subject: usr debug prt.Duo Gentoo
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Hello All:

I'm starting to make sense of the Gentoo install process, but barely. I botched
the first with a stupid vga line in grub, but I scrapped that process in favour
of messing it up royally with another two kicks at the cat. /-:

OK... Debian is on its way as I write, but I thought I'd ask a few basic
questions for my next fstab at Gentoo. 

I set hda1 as swap, and hda2 as /boot, with / at hda3 as reported by cfdisk,
size wise. As the MBR was chosen as grubs home, I thought I could tell it to
boot from (hd0,1). Should I instead boot to (hd0,0)?

Another boot partition question, is the size of that partition recommended by
Gentoo. They said 32M would do just fine, but I was used to RH/Deb/Mandrake
automatically setting up 100M+. I settled on 99.9M, (Tempting the devil, I
know. }|-) and am trying the Deb install to that. Should I go bigger, smaller,
or is it no big deal?

Finally, what about slapping Gentoo into the partitions that Deb just formated?
The base system is the same, no? Would I require at least a second /boot
partition for it, or a completely new /?

BTW, I'd *highly* recommend Gentoo's documentation to ANYONE! If it seems too
technical, a cursory inspection could do you no harm. If it seems pedestrian, a
recap might do you some good. Me, I found it just *right!* 



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