At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: >> Hi there >> >> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to >> know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make >> it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? >> > > first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print > everything, you should at least take some notes. > Read them again, look out for other helpfull guides. > The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too. > > After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your > harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is > your friend > > Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into > the free space, / and /boot. Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. > Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions! This will > sometimes cause some very delicate problems. > > After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides. > > Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram. Very good advice. Good luck, allan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
