On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steve Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo > > > > > > box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w/60 Gig, 7200 rpm hard > > drive, 1 Gig Ram > > Current configuration: > > XP factory installed on 30gig partition > > Suse v9.0 installed on 20gig partition ext2, 1 Gig SWAP > > > > Goal: > > 1. Remove Suse. > > 2. Format 20 gig with Reisersf > > Leave Grub > > Install Gentoo > > Install VMware. > > > > Question: > > Can I install Gentoo over Suse or should I start over on a > > clean hard drive. > > > > Option I am considering: > > Start with a new hard drive, install Gentoo, VMware and then > > run XP as a > > virtual machine. > > Please advise. > > > > Background: > > I have installed Gentoo from Stage1 on a P3 600 Compaq Deskpro EN and > > Kubuntu on another Compaq Deskpro EN. > > But consider myself a Gentoo novice. > > > > This is my first email to the list. > > Thanks in advance for any help, > > Welcome to the list Steve! :-) > > As you probably know there's more than one ways to skin a cat, so I only > express my preferences here; yours could be entirely different. I > would leave the factory installed WinXP alone. Back up and thereafter > remove all personal files and data from My Documents/Music/etc. Use > Qtparted or Partition Magic, or whatever to shrink it down to 10-12G. > Make sure that you defrag it a few times (before each successive > shrinking). > > Then install Gentoo in the remaining space - preferably in primary > partitions (it may give you an infinitesimally small increase in drive > access/read/write speed). Assuming you are using the default three > partition installation, then have swap first, root second, then an > extended partition and in logical partition(s) you can fit home if you > want it separately and boot last. Bringing Grub up could take an extra > second but running the rest of the system should benefit > proportionately. > > You can also create a vfat partition (personally I would put it on the > second drive) and map all applications in WinXP to use that to save My > Docs/Music/etc.- This would be your shared partitions to be able to > access files from all OS'. > > With 1G RAM I would not have a swap partition any larger than 120M. As > a matter of fact even that could be an overkill, but you never know. A > single swap partition would do nicely for both Linuxes (change your > /fstab accordingly). Size: a lot depends on what you use your system > for, how often you reboot/flush your swap, logs and how many buggy > applications you're running. Just as an indication on a 256M RAM box I > am using a 145M swap partition which I have never seen filling up more > than 75M. Even that only happened when Opera was caching all sort of > chinese type fonts like mad and OOo was compiling at the same time. > Otherwise even large compiles (KDE monolithic) struggle to use more than > 65M. For reasons mentioned above your mileage may vary. > > Of course if you want to go multi-partition insane you could do what > I've done and install Gentoo spread across multiple partitions on two > drives/separate controllers to allow parallel access/processing by the > CPU. A pain to back up but entertaining all the same if you like that > sort of thing! 8-D > > Good luck, > -- > Regards, > Mick Thanks for the help. The route I took was; 1. purchased another hd of same mfg/mdl 2. install gentoo (stage1 install). 3. install vmware 5.5 4. install win2k as a virtual machine. Had some wonderful help from someone in our Chicago office that guided me along via ssh and later vnd. Things are working fine EXCEPT FOR: 1. Printing: from Linux (win2k is ok) 2. Mounting USB drive and flash card reader. Will post to list as a separate questions if I do not figure it out. -- Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
