On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:13, Joshua Banks wrote: > > > > I ran into a problem when trying to install Gentoo on a 4gig drive. > > FYI I am running Gentoo + XFree86 + apps on a 4gig drive at the moment. > Thats re-assuring. Not sure what happened last time but I'll be sure to let everyone > know how it > goes this time. Not that anyone cares but maybe a noob like myself might. :P
Don't give up :-) It took me 4 or 5 attempted installs to get Gentoo working. Granted, for the most part I was trying to install on *old* machines (like a Pentium 90 with 32MB RAM), but I think I will even be able to get Gentoo to install on that now, I'll have to try that soon :-) Probably the best advice I can give is to make sure your machine has enough memory, either in the form of RAM or swapdisk space. I found, compiling on older machines that my installes often failed because the machine ran out of memory. I would suggest at least 256MB of memory in total, (ie made up of swap space and RAM). I am not sure how accurate this figure is... If you are going to need/use large swap space when compiling, but don't need a large amount of swap for normal, everyday use, you can repartition after the install. What I did was: In partitioning my drive I wanted a /home partition of ~800MB, but during the install I made it a bit smaller and used the extra space for a secondary swap partition so I had two swap partitions: * my primary swap (64MB) * install (secondary) swap of 192MB (and so my /home partition during the install was 800 - 192 = 608MB) After the install I copied anything which was on the /home partition to /tmp (or anywhere else you like) and deleted the /home and secondary swap partitions (remembering to turn the swap off before of course :-) and created a new partition in it's place (the new /home of 800MB leaving me with the first swap space of only 64MB). I then formatted the new home partition and moved all the /home files back to their proper place. If you do this you will also have to change your /etc/fstab file to reflect the new partition scheme, otherwise your /home partition won't be mounted on startup. My /etc/fstab look like this (minus all the other stuff): /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime 0 2 /dev/hda2 / reiserfs noatime 0 1 /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /tmp ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hda6 /var ext3 noatime 0 2 /dev/hda7 /home/sojourn ext3 noatime 0 3 /dev/hda8 /home/home ext3 noatime 0 3 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 So basically my setup is: hda1 (/boot)= 32MB hda2 (/) = 1.2gig hda3 (swap) = 64MB hda5 (/tmp) = 64MB hda6 (/var) = 128MB hda7 (/home/sojourn) = 128MB hda8 (/home) = ~800MB FYI: the oldest machine I have installed Gentoo on is a Cyrix M II 300mhz, 64MB RAM, 2.6G HDD. Of course, this might not the best way for *you* to do it, but it worked for me :-) Brett -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
