Re: Test run for Gentoo install fest

[Chris Bayley]

I am begining to see the benfits of a seperate partition for /var & 
/home or both.
twice now my system has ground to a halt when /var has filled up !

Oh and this will make you all laugh or cry (both happened in this 
household I assure you ) - my latest jetstream bill - wait for it: 
$60,0000 last month! - 291GB! (about 1G of which I can account for)
So if anyone thinnks they can help me get to the bottom of the 
'situation' or if anyone has a better bill than that I would be most 
anxious to speak with then on monday night!

Cheers all,
Chris
(the soon to be bankrupt)
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.
Nick Rout wrote:

  

       

/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start

please don't post html to the list if you can help it.

Its odd that the /etc/init.d/local script does not load the 3c59x
module.
the script cycles through all the available net modules 
         

and tries to
   

insmod them. If one (perhaps the de4x5) hangs then it may give the 
symptoms you observe.

can you give me the output of lsmod before and after you
    

         

load the 3c59x
  

       

module?



On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:55:19 +0200
Conrad Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


    

         

Sorry, this was supposed to go to the list, not only to
      

           

Chris. Conrad.
  

       

-------- Original Message --------  Subject:  Re: Gentoo
      

           

installfest ISO files	 
  

       

Date:  Tue, 24 Jun 2003 09:43:52 +0200	 
From:  Conrad Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>	 
To:  Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>	 
References:
      

           

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I've tried it again and waited at least 20 min this time,
      

           

but there is
  

       

neither network nor CD activity. With the boot option 'nonet' this
doesn't occur. I then get to the CL and can load 3c59x, but 
      

           

I've no idea
  

       

how to start the network skript. Is there an equivalent to
      

           

the Debian
  

       

'/etc/init.d/networking start'?

Cheers,
Conrad.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

 

      

           

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 08:09, Conrad Wolf wrote:

   

        

             

Thanks Chris!

I've downloaded the iso (checksum was ok) and burned it. When
booting with the CD I get a boot promt, but then during 
               

the boot 
   

process the box freezes. The last output is something like 
'Searching for de4x5'. I googled for it and found that 
          

               

de4x5 must be
  

       

a nic module. That's somewhat obscure, because I've got a
          

               

3Com card
  

       

which normally uses 3c59x.o.

     

          

               

So does my machine and it works ok.
How long did you wait?
That phase takes quite a long time.


   

        

             

Cheers,
Conrad.
Christopher Sawtell wrote:

     

          

               

On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 07:01, Conrad Wolf wrote:
  

       

            

                 

Sorry to ask, but how can I download from a http url in binary
mode? When I downloaded the iso with Mozilla, the 
                   

checksum and 
   

even the file size didn't match. For ftp I normally use 
              

                   

the gftp
  

       

package, but I couldn't connect to the http url with it.
    

         

              

                   

I've found the command line utility wget to be pretty well
bombproof
wget http://www.linuxnut.co.nz/dl/gentoo-distcc-clug-0.2.iso

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