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On Wednesday 11 January 2006 08:04, Michael Kintzios wrote: |
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> > -----Original Message----- |
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> > From: Steve Wilson [mailto:stevewilson@××××.com] |
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> > Sent: 11 January 2006 12:42 |
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> > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> > Subject: [gentoo-user] remove suse, install gentoo |
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> > box: Prostar 2.8Gig ProStar Laptop w/60 Gig, 7200 rpm hard |
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> > drive, 1 Gig Ram |
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> > Current configuration: |
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> > XP factory installed on 30gig partition |
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> > Suse v9.0 installed on 20gig partition ext2, 1 Gig SWAP |
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> > |
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> > Goal: |
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> > 1. Remove Suse. |
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> > 2. Format 20 gig with Reisersf |
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> > Leave Grub |
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> > Install Gentoo |
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> > Install VMware. |
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> > |
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> > Question: |
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> > Can I install Gentoo over Suse or should I start over on a |
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> > clean hard drive. |
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> > |
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> > Option I am considering: |
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> > Start with a new hard drive, install Gentoo, VMware and then |
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> > run XP as a |
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> > virtual machine. |
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> > Please advise. |
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> > |
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> > Background: |
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> > I have installed Gentoo from Stage1 on a P3 600 Compaq Deskpro EN and |
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> > Kubuntu on another Compaq Deskpro EN. |
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> > But consider myself a Gentoo novice. |
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> > |
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> > This is my first email to the list. |
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> > Thanks in advance for any help, |
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> |
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> Welcome to the list Steve! :-) |
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> As you probably know there's more than one ways to skin a cat, so I only |
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> express my preferences here; yours could be entirely different. I |
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> would leave the factory installed WinXP alone. Back up and thereafter |
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> remove all personal files and data from My Documents/Music/etc. Use |
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> Qtparted or Partition Magic, or whatever to shrink it down to 10-12G. |
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> Make sure that you defrag it a few times (before each successive |
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> shrinking). |
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> Then install Gentoo in the remaining space - preferably in primary |
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> partitions (it may give you an infinitesimally small increase in drive |
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> access/read/write speed). Assuming you are using the default three |
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> partition installation, then have swap first, root second, then an |
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> extended partition and in logical partition(s) you can fit home if you |
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> want it separately and boot last. Bringing Grub up could take an extra |
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> second but running the rest of the system should benefit |
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> proportionately. |
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> |
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> You can also create a vfat partition (personally I would put it on the |
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> second drive) and map all applications in WinXP to use that to save My |
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> Docs/Music/etc.- This would be your shared partitions to be able to |
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> access files from all OS'. |
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> With 1G RAM I would not have a swap partition any larger than 120M. As |
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> a matter of fact even that could be an overkill, but you never know. A |
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> single swap partition would do nicely for both Linuxes (change your |
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> /fstab accordingly). Size: a lot depends on what you use your system |
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> for, how often you reboot/flush your swap, logs and how many buggy |
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> applications you're running. Just as an indication on a 256M RAM box I |
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> am using a 145M swap partition which I have never seen filling up more |
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> than 75M. Even that only happened when Opera was caching all sort of |
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> chinese type fonts like mad and OOo was compiling at the same time. |
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> Otherwise even large compiles (KDE monolithic) struggle to use more than |
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> 65M. For reasons mentioned above your mileage may vary. |
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> |
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> Of course if you want to go multi-partition insane you could do what |
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> I've done and install Gentoo spread across multiple partitions on two |
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> drives/separate controllers to allow parallel access/processing by the |
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> CPU. A pain to back up but entertaining all the same if you like that |
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> sort of thing! 8-D |
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> Good luck, |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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Thanks for the help. |
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The route I took was; |
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1. purchased another hd of same mfg/mdl |
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2. install gentoo (stage1 install). |
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3. install vmware 5.5 |
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4. install win2k as a virtual machine. |
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Had some wonderful help from someone in our Chicago office that guided me |
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along via ssh and later vnd. |
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Things are working fine EXCEPT FOR: |
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1. Printing: from Linux (win2k is ok) |
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2. Mounting USB drive and flash card reader. |
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Will post to list as a separate questions if I do not figure it out. |
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Steve |
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