Hello, well i have set my Raspberry (B) with ArchLinuxArm. I decided againts gentoo, because of the long compilling time (for example git takes a long time). Maybe i try gentoo on my second sd card...
A1: I have set an extra swap partition. I followed this guide for resizing my main partition (i have a 16 GB sd card class 10) and setting the wap partition (or rather swap file?): Raspberry Pi – Partition an größere Sd-Karte anpassen [1] It is in german, but i think that if you are using gentoo, you should be able to follow just the commands, knowing what they do. I am not sure, how much swap you need, because you maybe need space for compilation of programs. Because of this fact i would encourage you to set a swap. How much swap you need/can give depends on the sd card. (I wouldnt't make 1GB swap on a 4GB card). I look forward to hearing more of you, because there are not that many people, talking about gentoo on raspberry (or rather i didn't found many). Can't answer A2, and A3, not enough knowledge. hrom [1] Setup Partitions on Raspberry Pi<http://sparky0815.de/2012/05/raspberry-pi-partition-an-grosere-sd-karte-anpassen/> On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 1:39 PM, fruktopus <frukto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > i am setting up gentoo a Raspberry (B) following the gentoo wiki [1], > first i prepare the SD-Card. The wiki links to the instructions over at > embedded linux wiki [2]. > > I wonder about the disk layout. > > Q1: Do i need a swap partition, and if yes is 512m ok? > > The gentoo wiki creates one, the elinux wiki not. > > Q2: Also the Raspberry is likely to be powered down without warning. To > my belief jounarled filesystems can handle this. I plan to use JFS since > it works well on my desktop as well. Is there something I could have in > mind? > > Q3: The gentoo wiki briefly mentions to use squashfs for /usr/portage. > What will be the benefits of this? > > [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi > [2] http://elinux.org/RPi_Advanced_Setup > > frukto > >
