On 5/12/05, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > Gentoo doesn't ask you what to install anything on. you install Gentoo > > on the partition of your choice. You can, in practice, install Gentoo > > on any partition type supported by the installation kernel and run it > > from any partition type supported by your custom kernel. > > A minor correction to what Mark said: vfat is fully supported by Linux > (read, write, edit, create, etc. are all supported and implemented). You > can't install onto a vfat partition though because the vfat/FAT32 > filesystem does not have the appropriate permissions capabilities. If > you have no filesystem preference, a good suggestion is to use Ext3 > or ReiserFS. I prefer Ext3, for what it's worth... >
Thanks Peter. While I know that VFAT permissions are far fewer it hadn't occurred to me that you actually couldn't do an install to VFAT due to those differences. (Not that I'd ever try, but it's good to know.) Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
