Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. If I use a file system type that /boot expects (ext3), and I change the mount tables (/etc/fstab), what are my chances that it will work.

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread m.w.chang
it's better to have different partitions esp if you plan to upgrade your linux from time to time or you want to play with multiple versions of linux. Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. Caldera, as an example, lets me put the partitions how I want. I was just

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Bob Raymond
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS partition. I typically make a partition for the OS itself, putting the whole OS in the one partition. Selecting the partition gets me the OS. Caldera, as an

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Collins
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 13:07:33 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07 Oct 2002 10:01:41 +0100 Bob Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 10:10, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I have a partition with user accounts and all my stuff, whihc is not in any OS

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Collins
[ snips ] On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 09:30:54 +0200 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. Just decline to create the /boot partition

Re: Gentoo question

2002-10-07 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 07:28:51 + Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am planning on trying a gentoo install. I would like it all in one partition. Is this possible? The docs talk about different partitions for boot and root. Just decline to create the /boot partition and don't mount it