Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition THUFIR HAWAT

2005-05-14 Thread Robert G. Hays
[digest-mode reply] Thufir, For good or ill, or maybe both good *and* ill!, Gentoo is basically an experts-only distro. (And STOP RIGHT THERE, flame-writers -- read the rest first.) Gentoo gives absolutely *awesome* power, but *This* *Thing* *Is* *Dangerous* -- it is a loaded *and* *cocked* pisto

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to > > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. > > There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen. I d

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: Another oopsi! > # First emerges emerge sync > emerge system -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: > # Make mountpoints and format partitions. > mkdir /mnt/gentoo > mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 > mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo > mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > mkswap /dev/hdb2 > swapon > mkdir /mnt/gentoo/usr > mkreiserfs /dev/hdb

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. There is no such limit, because the Gentoo live CDs include screen. -- Neil Bothwick Manual Writer's Creed: Garbage in, gospel out

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] > > I was hoping for a screen shot t

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Stroller
On May 14, 2005, at 4:33 am, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: I hesitate to proceed before I understand how Gentoo handles partitions, however. will it bring up a list of partitions similar to: 1 FAT32 2 ext3 and then I enter "1" to format the first partition, and then similarly select

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > The answer to your specific question is that you will run fdisk, you > will create the partitions you want at the size you want with the file > system type you want. There is no set size. there is no script to make > it happen. It comes out

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/05, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > Thufir, > >I think the point you may be missing here is that there is > > NOTHING graphical about the Gentoo installation. It is nothing > > more than a very carefully crafted se

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/14/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > Thufir, >I think the point you may be missing here is that there is > NOTHING graphical about the Gentoo installation. It is nothing > more than a very carefully crafted set of text commands. [..] ah, thanks for clarifying that. I

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread Mark Knecht
On 5/13/05, THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] > > I was hoping for a screen shot

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > Knoppix. [..] I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda. "The Gentoo Installation CDs are boo

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 02:40, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how > does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what? I don't mind > formating the fat32/vfat partition to ext3 (or whatever gentoo uses). > My primary concern is losing data

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 13. Mai 2005 08:40 schrieb ext THUFIR HAWAT: > when you say that Gentoo installs on the partition of my choice, how > does that happen: with a gui, drop-down menu or what? There is no installer for Gentoo. You boot from a LiveCD and type commands into a shell. That's how Gentoo is in

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
On 5/13/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 00:07, Phil Sexton wrote: > I notice pfat linux (was that it's name) has disappeared I was wrong. See: http://www.phatlinux.com/ -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-u

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Phil Sexton
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:23, Mark Knecht wrote: > 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.) There were some distros that w

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
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 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Peter Gordon
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 corr

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Mark Knecht
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. Hope this helps, Mark On 5/12

[gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread THUFIR HAWAT
I'm looking at and have a few simple questions. currently I have a dual boot system, with fedora core 3 and windows 2000. will gentoo show the different partitions and ask which ones to install on? will it show VFA