Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 01:15:53 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: and the OP said, that he is doing rescue work, not testing kernels. So 100mb for /boot sounds pretty pointless. In such a situation, when space is at a premium, I wouldn't have a /boot partition at all. -- Neil Bothwick I yam

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs why reiserfs on boot? why

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 10/11/05, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 10 October 2005 18:32, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Dave Nebinger
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... cornholio ~ # df -h /boot FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 15:19:43 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: To the question, resize is not a very secure operation, heh, I don't like it because I had issues like having to erase and rebuild my whole partition table Resizing a filesystem doesn't affect the partition table, you change that

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Tuesday 11 October 2005 23:13, Dave Nebinger wrote: On Tuesday 11 October 2005 02:36 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: I have three or four kernels in /boot and have 16mb... way enough I've got a 100MB /boot partition, and with 12 kernels I'm still only using 50%... and the OP said, that

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-11 Thread maxim wexler
Thanks for all your suggestions. I look forward to implementing them just as soon as my 120G gets back in service(if it does). BTW anybody know how long Maxtor warranties their cheap ATA drives? The 120 in question I bought from tigerdirect.ca about 6mos ago. --- Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL

[gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread maxim wexler
Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs I was going to use this disk to help diagnose/repair the 120G which is down. I guess I

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread A. Khattri
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs I was going to use this disk to help

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/10/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs I was going to use this disk

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread Justin Patrin
On 10/10/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Justin Patrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/10/05, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread Dave Nebinger
I was going to use this disk to help diagnose/repair the 120G which is down. Um, maybe I missed something Maxim. Do you have a cdrom? If so, just boot from a knoppix cd. Comes with tons of repair tools already on it. Then you wouldn't have to struggle with trying to get that small drive

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:32:49 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: That min-install I was talking about failed due to lack of disk space. I'm trying to install on a 3.2G drive. Partitions are : / of 1.47G ext2 /home 1.1G ext2 500M swap 100M /boot reiserfs I was going to use this disk to

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread maxim wexler
I'd hate to have to wipe the disk and start over; it took about two days straight to download all the files at 2.8K over the phone line! What sort of modem are you using, an acoustic coupler? !!! ;-) I live in the boonies at the end of an eight mile phone line. No broadband yet.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread maxim wexler
--- Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was going to use this disk to help diagnose/repair the 120G which is down. Um, maybe I missed something Maxim. Do you have a cdrom? If so, just boot from a knoppix cd. Comes with tons of repair tools already on it. Then you wouldn't

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo in a tight place

2005-10-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 12:35:08 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: it took about two days straight to download all the files at 2.8K over the phone line! What sort of modem are you using, an acoustic coupler? !!! ;-) I live in the boonies at the end of an eight mile phone line. No