On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: core packages for a dual-boot system
I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over
from fedora.
as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, "/mnt/windows".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
17394484 14690156 1806488 90% /
/dev/hda2 101105 18104 77780 19% /boot
/dev/shm 111860 0 111860 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 11451144 9922200 1528944 87% /mnt/windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date
Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$
4.b. Designing a Partitioning Scheme
Default Partitioning Scheme
If you are not interested in drawing up a partitioning scheme for your
system, you can use the partitioning scheme we use throughout this book:
Partition Filesystem Size Description
/dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition
/dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition
/dev/hda3 ext3 Rest of the disk Root partition
<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#fdisk>
So, I want something like:
Partition Filesystem Size Description
/dev/hda1 ext2 32M Boot partition
/dev/hda2 (swap) 512M Swap partition
/dev/hda3 ext3 ??? Root partition
/dev/hda4 fat32
I'm concerned about overwriting the windows partition, or mucking up the
dual-boot bootloader.
There are directions at
<http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot#Single_Drive_Install_.28Windows_Pre-Installed.29>,
but I'd like to have it all worked out ahead of time for my own sake.
Perhaps I don't even need to format anything?
-Thufir
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