On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 16:39:11 +0200 "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 ...snip... > > 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. How big did you make your partitions? specifically, /home, /var and /tmp? I am fixing to do the same when I have a day off from work, I have a secondary drive (/dev/hdc) that's going bad that has a different distro on it, so I am fixing to move the old win drive (/dev/hda) to it's place and put a brand new shiny 80gb on /dev/hda, install gentoo on it, then back up/dev/hdb and slice it up for /home and /var and /tmp. I figure I can chroot-install gentoo on the new drive so I won't have too much down time. -- When the government bureau's remedies don't match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
