Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest

[Conrad Wolf]

Thanx Brad!

If it is better style, I'll consider a seperate /boot partition. By the 
way, Google says that Grub supports ext3 as well as reiserfs. Could 
anybody tell me what the advantages/ disadvantages of a 'journaling' 
file system over ext2 are. And how compare reiserfs and ext3 to each 
other? Which one should I go for (I use ext2 at the moment)?

Cheers,
Conrad.
Brad Beveridge wrote:

Safety - generally (under gentoo) /boot is not mounted, or only mounted RO.  So you will always be able to boot.  However, since I have (repeatedly) dumped bzImage files into /boot _without_ it being mounted, I now mount my /boot partition in fstab.  So much for safety.  So I spose you can get away with a single partition, as long as your boot loader functions.  What I mean, if you are using GRUB as a bootloader, your boot partition must be a filesystem it understands.

Brad

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Conrad Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:57 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest

What is the advantage of having a small boot partition. I 
boot my Debian 
system from a 5.4 GB partitions without any problems.

Cheers,
Conrad.
Brad Beveridge wrote:

   

I began installing gentoo on a laptop last night, my partitions are 
/dev/hda1 - ntfs (gah) /dev/hda2 - ext3, boot region, 30Mb 
     

(only needs 
   

to be large enough to fit 1 bzImage really) /dev/hda3 - 
     

500Mb swap (you 
   

can use your Debian swap) /dev/hda4 - reiserfs for the rest. 
     

- reiser 
   

or ext3 is reccommended

Brad



     

-----Original Message-----
From: Conrad Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 11:49 p.m.
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Test run for Gentoo install fest
Sorry, but I won't make it to the meeting on Monday. This is
particularly bad, because I won't be there for the test run of our 
Gentoo install fest next Saturday. My laptop is booting 
Nick's CD and I 
can get my NIC working. Is there anything else that could 
       

go wrong or 
   

that I should check?

Chris mentioned in one of his posts that 3 partitions are
needed for the 
Gentoo install. What do they have to look like (size, type) 
and what're 
they used for. On my current Debian system I've 1 swap and 
       

1 ext2 (/) 
   

partition. For data I've got a FAT32 partition that I access 
       

from Linux 
     

and Windows.

Cheers,
Conrad.