In the US, I'm almost certain you wouldn't be able to get away with running
Gentoo, and more specifically, Portage, the way you apparently do in a secure
govt environment. There's probably a federal directive or regulation somewhere
that prevents machines being run in govt organizations from
Absolute minimum:
1. Windows: Type=NTFS Size=10GB + however much more space you want for Windows.
2. Linux Swap: Type=swap Size=ram size
3. Gentoo: Type=ext3 Size=10GB + however much space you want for Linux.
Recommended:
1. Windows: Type=NTFS Size=10GB
2. Linux Swap: Type=swap Size=ram
I've found 128MB to be fine for /boot. If he wants to play around with
non-Gentoo kernels, then it will be nice to have the extra space to store the
kernel source tarballs (~40MB ea). In addition, its usually a good idea to
have space for backups, and probably bitmaps for the boot loader and
You can also backup and and restore the MBR using the Linux dd program
available on the Gentoo LiveCD.
From
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/saw27/notes/backup-hard-disk-partitions.html
:
dd if=/dev/hda of=backup-of-hda-mbr count=1 bs=512
This stores the first 512 bytes of the disk
The use of package.keywords is recommended because it allows you to apply the
condition to specific packages. If you really want to use the arch testing
packages system wide, then I believe the way to do this is to insert the line:
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86
into your /etc/make.conf file. All
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