Thanks for the response Brett. Any tips help at this point. I've got everything installed and am now downloading the system updates. What a pain an the arse. Dialup is so unforgiving in these times. I will post back to this thread if it starts acting up. So far so good.
Thanks, JBanks --- Brett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 11:13, Joshua Banks wrote: > > > > > I ran into a problem when trying to install Gentoo on a 4gig drive. > > > FYI I am running Gentoo + XFree86 + apps on a 4gig drive at the moment. > > Thats re-assuring. Not sure what happened last time but I'll be sure to let > > everyone know how > it > > goes this time. Not that anyone cares but maybe a noob like myself might. :P > > Don't give up :-) It took me 4 or 5 attempted installs to get Gentoo > working. Granted, for the most part I was trying to install on *old* > machines (like a Pentium 90 with 32MB RAM), but I think I will even be > able to get Gentoo to install on that now, I'll have to try that soon > :-) > > Probably the best advice I can give is to make sure your machine has > enough memory, either in the form of RAM or swapdisk space. I found, > compiling on older machines that my installes often failed because the > machine ran out of memory. I would suggest at least 256MB of memory in > total, (ie made up of swap space and RAM). I am not sure how accurate > this figure is... > > If you are going to need/use large swap space when compiling, but don't > need a large amount of swap for normal, everyday use, you can > repartition after the install. What I did was: > > In partitioning my drive I wanted a /home partition of ~800MB, but > during the install I made it a bit smaller and used the extra space for > a secondary swap partition so I had two swap partitions: > * my primary swap (64MB) > * install (secondary) swap of 192MB > (and so my /home partition during the install was 800 - 192 = 608MB) > > After the install I copied anything which was on the /home partition to > /tmp (or anywhere else you like) and deleted the /home and secondary > swap partitions (remembering to turn the swap off before of course :-) > and created a new partition in it's place (the new /home of 800MB > leaving me with the first swap space of only 64MB). I then formatted the > new home partition and moved all the /home files back to their proper > place. If you do this you will also have to change your /etc/fstab file > to reflect the new partition scheme, otherwise your /home partition > won't be mounted on startup. > > My /etc/fstab look like this (minus all the other stuff): > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 noauto,noatime > 0 2 > /dev/hda2 / reiserfs noatime > 0 1 > /dev/hda3 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /tmp ext3 noatime > 0 2 > /dev/hda6 /var ext3 noatime > 0 2 > /dev/hda7 /home/sojourn ext3 noatime > 0 3 > /dev/hda8 /home/home ext3 noatime 0 3 > /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro > 0 0 > > So basically my setup is: > hda1 (/boot)= 32MB > hda2 (/) = 1.2gig > hda3 (swap) = 64MB > hda5 (/tmp) = 64MB > hda6 (/var) = 128MB > hda7 (/home/sojourn) = 128MB > hda8 (/home) = ~800MB > > FYI: the oldest machine I have installed Gentoo on is a Cyrix M II > 300mhz, 64MB RAM, 2.6G HDD. > > Of course, this might not the best way for *you* to do it, but it worked > for me :-) > Brett > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search http://shopping.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
