Partition Magic did a good job. I know exactly
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Partition Magic did a good job. I know exactly
I think you got your last post cut off.
Haha, yeah. It takes some time to get used to navigating with a keyboard.
Anyway, I've written down the setup of the HDs, so I'll be ready to write the partition table to the HD later tonight. I have to go for a bit. Thanks for the help. :)
Before I do anything though, I would really appreciate it if you could reassure me in this setup:
hde = 1st HD
hdg = 2nd HD
/dev/hde5 (boot partition)
/dev/hde6 (root partition)
/dev/hde7 (home partition)
/dev/hde8 (tmp partition)
/dev/hdg5 (backup partition)
/dev/hdg8 (swap partition)
All of those partitions are logical. Is that ok?
Is it neccessary that I deflag hde1 (my Windows partition) and flag hde5 for booting? Will problems arise if I have both hde1 and hde5 flagged?
The /home directory I can setup after I have the OS installed, right?
Should I go with ext3 or ReiserFS? From what I've read ReiserFS is superior to ext3. Does ext3 have any advantages over ReiserFS?
Logical partitions are extended partitions, right? I don't really think it matters. My XP and boot partition are primary partitions, and the rest of mine are logical. The limit for primary partitions is 4 per drive, I think, so if you want more than 4, you need to use extended anyways.
Honestly I don't know if you really needed /tmp on its own partition. Especially since you're just using a home desktop computer, security isn't all that important. Not that it's going to hurt anything. What partition scheme you use really doesn't matter that much, so long as there's enough room for everything. It's all personal preference, so there is no right or wrong way to do stuff. You can fix it later if you don't like it, so long as you figure out what you want before you completely fill up your partitions with files.
I read a lot of conflicting statements about the bootable flag. On my system only the Windows partition is flagged as bootable. You're using grub/lilo anyways, and I think grub just ignores the bootable flags. If you have a Windows partition you want to boot Windows off of via grub, then make sure it has the bootable flag, otherwise I don't think it matters.
Dunno what you mean about setting up /home. If you mean adding new users and stuff, then yeah, you do that at the very end once the OS is working.
ext3 vs. reiserfs is a huge debate, like most things in Linux-land. ext3 is apparently better able to be recovered if it gets corrupted. reiserfs is apparently faster for desktop use. I use reiserfs, it gives me no problems. There's also xfs, which I don't know much about, but some people swear by it.
Logical partitions are physically inside extended partitions - they're not the same. As far as I know, you can only have one extended partition per physical disk too, causing all logical partitions on that disk to have to be adjacent to each other. The limit of 4 is the total primary plus extended partitions, and because of this hard limit, this is why logical partitions usually start at /hdx5 and onwards regardless of if you're using all 4 of these slots or not. I don't know if there's a limit for the number of logical partitions though.
You're right. An extended partition is a meta-partition, and a logical partition is a sub-partition of an extended one. Computers are so archaic sometimes.
I'm having trouble extracting the stage3 tarball. I've created and mounted all my drives and directories and I'm in the /mnt/gentoo directory. When I download CONTENTS-stage3 it should download to that directory, correct? Well, when I try to extract using tar -xvjpf CONTENTS-stage3.tar.bz2 I get "no such file or directory" errors. And when I look in make.conf using nano, there's nothing in there, it's blank.
Any help?
How are you downloading it? What program are you using?
A slow but sure-fire way to find the file once you download it is
find / -iname '*stage3.tar.bz2'
I'm using links.
I'll try that.
You can use wget. Just type wget URL from the command line, with the URL being any FTP or HTTP URL, and it'll download the file into the current directory. It also supports resuming unfinished downloads. wget is incredibly useful and powerful.