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Hello James.

08 Jan 06 04:26, you wrote to all:

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

Ouch .... :-)

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

Okay ... no promises ...

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

Not sure, but I think so ...

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

Well, I tend to stick at around 100M, just to be safe, keeping Murphy in mind 
..

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

Boot partions can be shared, but, that is another can of worms, I'd rather 
leave that, until, I have all other bases covered, then maybe, ... just maybe, 
I'd try that, same for root ... , definetly seperate root partions, if they 
are going to be on the HDD at the same time.

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

Gentoo, I want to play with some, just must find a day when nothing is chasing 
me, then I just might get it done ... :-))

Russell