Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
William Kenworthy wrote: On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 21:42 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: I was not surprised to see that the latest manual has root+usr combined, but was surprised that they specify an additional small /boot partition. .

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. >> I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly >> or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. > > Microsoft have been doing the right thing s

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2012-09-15 at 21:42 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: > > > Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> > >> I was not surprised to see that the latest manual has root+usr combined, > >> but was surprised that they specify an additional small /boot partition. ... Sort

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Philip Webb wrote: > 120915 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD >> and naturally want to install Gentoo. This is my first with an SSD. >> I reinstalled Windows shrinking the large partition very considerably > > That much is wha

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Sat, Sep 15 2012, Kerin Millar wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >> I was not surprised to see that the latest manual has root+usr combined, >> but was surprised that they specify an additional small /boot partition. >> I had thought that went out of favor a few years ago. Is it back >> becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
Philip Webb wrote: Yes, iff you partition the whole disk that way. I don't know whether Dell + M$ located their partitions correctly or whether Fdisk will start at the proper place when adding more. Microsoft have been doing the right thing since Vista SP1, long before the Linux ecosystem pull

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Philip Webb
120915 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD > and naturally want to install Gentoo. This is my first with an SSD. > I reinstalled Windows shrinking the large partition very considerably That much is what I did with my EEE netbook 2008 . M$ has 2 use

Re: [gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Kerin Millar
Allan Gottlieb wrote: I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD and naturally want to install gentoo. I have installed gentoo several times but this is my first with an SSD. Dell configures a small first partition and places windows on two other partitions (one small; the other

[gentoo-user] partitioning an ssd for new installation

2012-09-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I just received a new laptop (dell 6430s) with a 256GB SSD and naturally want to install gentoo. I have installed gentoo several times but this is my first with an SSD. Dell configures a small first partition and places windows on two other partitions (one small; the other the rest of the disk).