Le Samedi 7 Juin 2003 16:39, Hemmann, Volker Armin a écrit : > 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.
Thank you Volker, this modus operandi is exactly what I needed ; Thanks to all others too; going for install now! cu in my next os, -- Jean -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
