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Subject: Re: usr debug prt.Duo Gentoo
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James Bradley wrote to All:

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

With grub you can press  IIRC, and edit the command line so you
you can get booted even if there is a bad command in there. :)
 
JB> OK... Debian is on its way as I write, but I thought I'd ask a few basic
JB> questions for my next fstab at Gentoo. 
JB> 
JB> I set hda1 as swap, and hda2 as /boot, with / at hda3 as reported by 
JB> cfdisk,
JB> size wise. As the MBR was chosen as grubs home, I thought I could tell it 
JB> to
JB> boot from (hd0,1). Should I instead boot to (hd0,0)?

I have always installed grub or lilo to the mbr. I've seen the option
to install to a partition but I don't know what the would be useful
for. I think (hd0,0) would be your swap drive. 0 for for first hard
drive and 0 for first partition, you'll need 0,1 (I think).

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

That 32 megs is just for your /boot partition, that's plenty big with
room for an extra kernel or two.. You only really need an ext2 /boot
partition if your kernel doesn't support any other fs type. Depending
on how you build your kernel you may not need it. You wouldn't need
it with debian but you might with gentoo.

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

If they are freshly formatted and empty that would be fine. I wouldn't
do it otherwise though, there are sure to be differences.

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

I did the gentoo install a few times, great experience.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

.. Discoveries are often made by not following instructions.