On my last few installs I have used LVM2: magic as it means you can easily and transparently resize partitions and add new drives with minimal downtime. Partition size choices are no longer such a limiting factor.
Highly recommended. BillK On Sun, 2005-08-28 at 22:11 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > I've got my bright shiney (would you believe dull beige-coloured?) new > toy, and I'm working on the install now. A few anxious newbie moments... > > - when I tried unscrewing the dialup-modem-connector cable from my old > machine, I ended up with the thumbscrew in my hand, and the modem > connector still firmly connected... oops. It took several minutes of > screwing in, unscrewing, and wiggling around to get it out. I have > used my dialup account on occasion when my ADSL ISP was down so I do > want to keep the dialup option. I'll remove the thumbscrews before > inserting the connector onto my new machine. > > - the install CD couldn't find /dev/hda ... because the SATA drive > shows up as /dev/sda (dohhh) > > - when I first tried chrooting, it failed with an "Exec format error". > After a bit of googling, I finally figured out that I had grabbed my > ***32-bit X86*** Gentoo 2005.1 install CD and tried to install the > 64-bit version (dohhh). Download and burn the AMD64 install ISO, wipe > /dev/sda1 and restart. > > I've gone with 12 gigs for /dev/sda1, 2 gigs for /dev/sda5 (swap), and > the rest of the drive is /dev/sda6, which will be mounted as /home. I'm > using ReiserFS, as the Gentoo AMD64 guide seems a bit dated, with > references to 2004.3. The references to 32-bit compilation are somewhat > confusing. It looks like I have two choices... > > 1) Building my system with the "multilib" flag and *MANUALLY* building > stuff with the "m32" flag. Stuff should probably go to /usr/local. > > 2) A complete chrooted environment into which I do a full-blown 32-bit > X86 (*NOT* AMD64) install. > > -- > Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
