On Friday 06 June 2003 23:29, Jean Magnan wrote: > Hi all, > I am planning to install gentoo instead of some other distro; I read the > doc but found nothing about having more than /boot and / partitions. I wish > to install at least a /home partition. > What would do?
Make the needed partitions, mount them, before you chroot into the directory-tree (like /mnt/gentoo /mnt/gentoo/usr /mnt/gentoo/var etc) While it compiles, you can easily edit fstab, and when your box reboots, everything is fine. I have: /dev/hda1 /boot /dev/hda5 / /dev/hda6 /tmp /dev/hdb1 /var /dev/hdb3 /home /dev/hdg1 swap /dev/hdg3 /usr/portage /dev/hdb2 /mnt/capture (for capturing from my bt848 based card) /dev/hde1 /mnt/win1 (old vfat formated partition used for files, tmp files etc once home of a win95b installation) /dev/hde2 /mnt/win2 (the old data-partition of the former one) /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash (usb stick) You should put /tmp and /var on own partitions. /tmp because everybody is allowed to fill it up.. and a full /-partition is no fun. /var is also prone to become huge.. so a seperate partition reduces the risk of annoying problems. /home on a own partition is a wise choice, because it is easy to reinstall your whole system, without damaging your precious data. Glück Auf Volker -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
