On Tuesday, 26 August 2003, at 19:45PM, Meph Istopheles wrote:
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...
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?
Erm... when I last installed one used a text editor, `nano -w /etc/fstab`. I believe vi is also now included on the install CDs.
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): # 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?
I think someone else already answered this, but I can't find it, so excuse me if I'm reiterating:
These directories are created _inside the InstallCD environment_ which is a Unix filesystem on a CD-ROM. /mnt/gentoo is relative only to _this_ filesystem, and not to your root hard-disk.
Once you chroot into /mnt/gentoo /dev/hda2 becomes /, /mnt/gentoo/boot becomes /boot and so on. This is just as it is when you boot up the system for the first time. Gentoo is hence just like BSD & the other Linux distros you are familiar with.
Stroller.
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