you probably want to allow a 10G partition, which will allow a good headroom for other stuff. I think you would want a very minimum of 3G for the install but that doesn't allow much room for fun.
You can share home, it should be ok, as long as uid's are matched. any bootloader should be ok. On Thu, February 3, 2005 7:08 pm, Robert Himmelmann said: > About how much space do I need for a 'normal' Gentoo-installation with > Java, KDE, and so on? And would it be possible to use the same > home-directorys as with SuSE 9.2? (/home is on a different partition > than /) It would also bee good to use the linux bootloader as it is (on > my system) reliable and has a really nice graphical interface. > >>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:11, Robert Himmelmann wrote: >> >> >>>Nick Rout wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Anyway, just an indication of interest is all i'm after at this stage. >>>> >>>> >>>I might come just for watching and helping. I have always been using >>>SuSE and so I don't have any experience with a 'real' installation. I >>>would like to try Gentoo, but my 40Gb-laptop-hd is already filled with >>>SuSE and windows and the partition table is so badly designed that I >>>can't put on another partition. >>> >>> >> >>I'm sure that can be sorted out. That's what 'Fests are for. >> >> >> > > > -- > Happy Hacking, > Robert > > Use free software only. See > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html > > Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you > don't think. > -- /usr/bin/fortune >
