Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I > wanted to when I bought it. > > Data: > > 80GB hard drive > 2GB DRAM > > Questions: > > 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer > to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues?
Dunno. All machines I ever setup as dual boot had Windows pre-installed, so I
can only say: There are no issues when installing Windows first.
> 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive
> up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using
> 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering:
>
> sda1 -> /boot = 50MB
> sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5%
> of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.)
> sda3 -> /var = 2GB
> sda4 ==extended
> sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB
> sda6 == Windows drive C:
>
> Any and all comments and ideas welcomed.
Here they are: I mostly keep 20G for Windows, but it could well be 10 :-)
My setup:
sda1 -> Windows
sda2 -> /boot, ext2, 32m.
sda3 -> /, xfs, 256m (Setting up this way frees you from using initramfs)
sda4 -> LVM, for everything else.
LVM Setup (one volume group having the machine name in its name, like
/dev/<machine-name>_vg00/<volume>, with <volume> being:
usr -> /usr, xfs, starting with 3G, growing on demand
var -> /var, xfs, 1G
opt -> /opt, xfs, 1G
johndoe -> /home/johndoe, xfs, size depends
overlays -> /gentoo/overlays, xfs, 1G (portage tree and overlays)
build -> /gentoo/build, xfs, size depends (up to 6G if you want to build OOo)
distfiles -> /gentoo/distfiles, xfs, 2G
swap -> swap, swap, 2G (optional)
whatever you need in addition.
You wrote this is a laptop, so if you consider encrypting the volumes
(incl. /) you need an initramfs anyway, which means you could also put / on a
logical volume (in which case the above would change to: sda3 -> LVM and
root -> /, xfs, 256m).
HTH...
Dirk
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