Morning Stroller, > > Now, I've been using DiskDruid for partitioning when I set > > up, & have used fdisk countless times on different drives for > > partitioning, but never during setup. Will the setup -- > > assuming, as it should, will find all drives & will set fstab > > to mount /dev/hdb1 as /home, or will I have to do that > > manually after first boot as root?
> Drive partitioning & mounting is something that Gentoo doesn't > believe in doing automagically for you. Sounds good. I wonder though, does Stage 3 install offer a screen for editing fstab? > It is covered in section 7 of the install docs: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap7 > You should treat your partition layout just like /boot /usr & > /var mentioned in the docs. OK. I'd skimmed various parts of the install recently & more thurouly read other parts. I'll take a longer look before I start the install too. > Code listing 7.2 shows how to mount a typical simple partition > layout from _within_ the InstallCD chroot. Ah, chroot. I've only used this during rescue operations with RH. It'll be odd having to do this as a part of install, but that's cool. > Let's edit this for your system (for the df -h above, not your > proposed changes, because it's too early in the morning for me > to absorb those right now): Not a problem -- I've only had two cups of coffee & am dealing with a migrain as it is. > # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot > # mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/home > # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/home > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup > # mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/gentoo/backup > # mkdir /mnt/gentoo/backup2 > # mount /dev/hdd1 /mnt/gentoo/backup2 This is something which caught my eye when I was skimming the docs: /mnt/gentoo. Is this a system thing, or is there a time one will actually be editing docs & have to remember that /mnt/gentoo... is required as opposed to /, which is all I've done with RH, slack & FreeBSD? Maybe my migrain is effecting my coherence.... > Editing fstab is mentioned later in the same document: > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap15 > "... of course be sure to replace "BOOT", "ROOT" and "SWAP" > with the actual block devices you are using (such as hda1, > etc.)" > So on your system: > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 > /dev/hda2 / ext3 noatime 0 1 > /dev/hdb1 /home reiserfs noatime 0 3 > /dev/hdb2 /backup reiserfs noatime 0 3 > /dev/hdd1 /backup2 reiserfs noatime 0 3 > /dev/SWAP none swap sw 0 0 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 Yes, this looks very familiar, based on my familiarity with RH & what I remember from the Gentoo docs. > HTH, Yes, very much so. Thank you for clearing these points up -- at least as well as I can make out under the circumstances this morning;-). Meph -- "I'm not a god, I was misquoted." -Lister, Red Dwarf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
