Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Sandro Hannemann wrote: > Hi, > > On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... > > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > No need to go FAT anymore... Not quite. It's not ntfs-ng, it's the same old ntfs write support that's been there for ages, and it's *part

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Sandro Hannemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... > > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > No need to go FAT anymore... > > Cheers, > Sandro > I'll keep that in mind. Thanks. However that's not on

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : > > > > sda1 -> /boot = 50MB > > sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% > > of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) > > sda3 -> /var = 2GB > > sda4 ==extended > > sd

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > > > I presume I'll use > > > > grub> root(hd0,4) > > to point at my root and still use > > That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > I presume I'll use > > grub> root(hd0,4) > to point at my root and still use That should be grub's root (/boot), NOT linux' (/), means (hd0,1) if /boot is sda2. > grub> setup (hd0) to get grub installed into the MBR? That's correct. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > > overnight so I'm going to finally do

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Hi, On linux-2.6.25 NTFS write support is finally stable... CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y No need to go FAT anymore... Cheers, Sandro -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I > wanted to when I bought it. > > Data: > > 80GB

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 02 May 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: > My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the > weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine > overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I > wanted to when I bought it. > > Data: > > 80GB ha

Re: [gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 2 May 2008, 18:41, Mark Knecht wrote: > Data: > > 80GB hard drive > 2GB DRAM > > Questions: > > 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer > to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? Yes. XP will blow away the MBR and replace it with its own MBR, so, to be ab

[gentoo-user] Laptop dual-boot rebuild - disk partition questions

2008-05-02 Thread Mark Knecht
My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I wanted to when I bought it. Data: 80GB hard drive 2GB DRAM Questions: 1) What's the recommended