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From: Sven Vermeulen <swift@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-doc-cvs@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: altinstall.xml
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 20:29:48
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20 --- altinstall.xml 9 Jan 2008 20:36:44 -0000 1.74
21 +++ altinstall.xml 23 May 2008 20:29:44 -0000 1.75
22 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
23 <?xml version='1.0' encoding="UTF-8"?>
24 -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.74 2008/01/09 20:36:44 jkt Exp $ -->
25 +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/altinstall.xml,v 1.75 2008/05/23 20:29:44 swift Exp $ -->
26 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
27
28 <guide link="/doc/en/altinstall.xml">
29 @@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
30 <body>
31
32 <p>
33 -Download Smart BootManager available from
34 +Download Smart BootManager available from
35 <uri>http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/download.html</uri>.
36 Linux source or binary format and windows .exe versions are available as well
37 as many language packs. However, at this time, the preferred method would be to
38 @@ -102,16 +102,16 @@
39 sbminst [-t theme] [-d drv] [-b backup_file] [-u backup_file]
40
41 -t theme select the theme to be used, in which the theme could be:
42 - us = English theme de = German theme
43 - hu = Hungarian theme zh = Chinese theme
44 + us = English theme de = German theme
45 + hu = Hungarian theme zh = Chinese theme
46 ru = Russian theme cz = Czech theme
47 - es = Spanish theme fr = French theme
48 - pt = Portuguese theme
49 + es = Spanish theme fr = French theme
50 + pt = Portuguese theme
51 +
52
53 -
54 -d drv set the drive that you want to install Smart BootManager on;
55 for Linux:
56 - /dev/fd0 is the first floppy driver,
57 + /dev/fd0 is the first floppy driver,
58 /dev/hda is the first IDE harddisk driver.
59 /dev/sda is the first SCSI harddisk driver.
60 for DOS:
61 @@ -133,7 +133,8 @@
62 </pre>
63
64 <note>
65 -Replace <path>fd0</path> with your respective floppy device name if yours is different.
66 +Replace <path>fd0</path> with your respective floppy device name if yours is
67 +different.
68 </note>
69
70 <p>
71 @@ -163,7 +164,7 @@
72 <body>
73
74 <note>
75 -Knoppix is only available for x86 users.
76 +Knoppix is only available for x86 users.
77 </note>
78
79 <!-- this works with knoppix 3.6+ and gentoo 2004.3, 2005.0-->
80 @@ -191,8 +192,8 @@
81 </p>
82
83 <p>
84 -By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a <c>konsole</c> and <c>su -</c>
85 -so you can change your password. This lets you set the root password for
86 +By default Knoppix boots into a KDE desktop. Open a <c>konsole</c> and <c>su
87 +-</c> so you can change your password. This lets you set the root password for
88 Knoppix. You can now configure <c>sshd</c> for remote login, at your
89 preference.
90 </p>
91 @@ -219,11 +220,11 @@
92 features.
93 </p>
94
95 -<!--
96 +<!--
97 Commenting out due to #78716. If it needs to be restated again, note
98 that some will require to bind-mount it, others don't, and that you have
99 a 50-50 chance of winning the gold strike.
100 -
101 +
102
103 <p>
104 You will also need to bind-mount the device tree to resolve permission issues
105 @@ -286,9 +287,9 @@
106
107 <note>
108 This provide a static IP address for the client and the path of a PXE boot
109 -image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the Ethernet card
110 -of the client and the directory where you will put the client files with the
111 -one you use.
112 +image, here <path>pxegrub</path>. You have to replace the MAC address of the
113 +Ethernet card of the client and the directory where you will put the client
114 +files with the one you use.
115 </note>
116
117 <p>
118 @@ -385,15 +386,15 @@
119 <body>
120
121 <p>
122 -You might want to reboot the server with a Gentoo Install CD, although you can
123 -very well continue immediately if you know how to proceed with the Gentoo
124 -Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
125 -install procedure as explained in the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook/">Gentoo Handbook</uri> BUT with the
126 -following differences:
127 -When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is the partition
128 -where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do not need to mount any other
129 -partitions as all of the files will reside in the <path>/diskless/eta</path>
130 -directory.
131 +You might want to reboot the server with a Gentoo Install CD, although you can
132 +very well continue immediately if you know how to proceed with the Gentoo
133 +Installation Instructions from an existing installation. Follow the standard
134 +install procedure as explained in the <uri link="/doc/en/handbook/">Gentoo
135 +Handbook</uri> BUT with the following differences:
136 +When you mount the file system, do the following (where <path>hdaX</path> is
137 +the partition where you created the <path>/diskless</path> directory). You do
138 +not need to mount any other partitions as all of the files will reside in the
139 +<path>/diskless/eta</path> directory.
140 </p>
141
142 <pre caption="Mounting the filesystem">
143 @@ -449,7 +450,7 @@
144
145 <p>
146 Save the kernel in your chrooted <path>/</path> (not in <path>/boot</path>)
147 -according to the pxegrub setting defined earlier. Next configure your
148 +according to the pxegrub setting defined earlier. Next configure your
149 diskless client's <path>/etc/fstab</path>.
150 </p>
151
152 @@ -511,7 +512,7 @@
153 </chapter>
154
155 <chapter>
156 -<title>Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution</title>
157 +<title>Installing Gentoo from an existing Linux distribution</title>
158 <section>
159 <title>Requirements</title>
160 <body>
161 @@ -533,10 +534,10 @@
162
163 <p>
164 We will first allocate a partition to Gentoo by resizing our existing Linux
165 -partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball to the partition that is mounted, chroot
166 -inside the pseudo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap process is
167 -done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to make sure it
168 -boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
169 +partition, mount the partition, untar the tarball to the partition that is
170 +mounted, chroot inside the pseudo-system and start building. Once the bootstrap
171 +process is done, we will do some final configuration on the system so as to
172 +make sure it boots, then we are ready to reboot and use Gentoo.
173 </p>
174
175 </body>
176 @@ -547,10 +548,11 @@
177
178 <p>
179 The root partition is the filesystem mounted under <path>/</path>. A quick run
180 -of <c>mount</c> on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use <c>df</c> (disk
181 -free) to see how much space I have left and how I will be resizing. Note that
182 -it is not mandatory to resize your root partition! You could be resizing
183 -anything else supported by our resizer, but let's talk about that later.
184 +of <c>mount</c> on my system shows what I am talking about. We well also use
185 +<c>df</c> (disk free) to see how much space I have left and how I will be
186 +resizing. Note that it is not mandatory to resize your root partition! You
187 +could be resizing anything else supported by our resizer, but let's talk about
188 +that later.
189 </p>
190
191 <pre caption="Filesystem information">
192 @@ -560,9 +562,9 @@
193 none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
194 none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nodev,nosuid,noexec)
195 # <i>df -h </i>
196 -Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
197 +Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
198 /dev/hdb2 4.0G 1.9G 2.4G 82% /
199 -none 38M 0 38M 0% /dev/shm
200 +none 38M 0 38M 0% /dev/shm
201 </pre>
202
203 <p>
204 @@ -576,7 +578,7 @@
205 </body>
206 </section>
207 <section>
208 -<title>Building parted to resize partition</title>
209 +<title>Building parted to resize partition</title>
210 <body>
211
212 <p>
213 @@ -590,10 +592,10 @@
214 <note>
215 There are other tools for doing resize of partitions as well, but the author is
216 unsure/uninterested whether PartitionMagic(tm) or other software of the kind do
217 -the job. It's the reader's job to check them out
218 +the job. It's the reader's job to check them out
219 </note>
220
221 -<p>
222 +<p>
223 Look up on that page the type of filesystem you want to resize and see if
224 parted can do it. If not, you're out of luck, you will have to destroy some
225 partition to make space for Gentoo, and reinstall back. Go ahead by downloading
226 @@ -622,8 +624,8 @@
227 Note again that Linux is synonym of "There's one more way to do it". Your
228 objective is to run parted on an unmounted partition so it can do its work. You
229 might use some boot/root diskset other than mininux. You might not even
230 -need to do this step at all, ie. you might only have umount the filesystem you want to
231 -repartition in your Linux session and run parted on it.
232 +need to do this step at all, ie. you might only have umount the filesystem you
233 +want to repartition in your Linux session and run parted on it.
234 </note>
235
236 <pre caption="Utility disk creation">
237 @@ -637,13 +639,14 @@
238
239 <p>
240 We will now proceed with the build of parted. If it's not already downloaded
241 -and untarred, do so now and <c>cd</c> into the corresponding directory. Now run the
242 -following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy disk.
243 +and untarred, do so now and <c>cd</c> into the corresponding directory. Now run
244 +the following set of commands to build the utility and copy it to your floppy
245 +disk.
246 </p>
247
248 <pre caption="Building the utility floppy">
249 -# <i> mkdir /floppy; mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy &amp;&amp;
250 -export CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -static" &amp;&amp; ./configure
251 +# <i> mkdir /floppy; mount -t minix /dev/fd0 /floppy &amp;&amp;
252 +export CFLAGS="-O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -static" &amp;&amp; ./configure
253 &amp;&amp; make &amp;&amp; cp parted/parted /floppy &amp;&amp; umount /floppy </i>
254 </pre>
255
256 @@ -653,12 +656,12 @@
257 The resize should take under 30 minutes for the largest hard-drives, be
258 patient. Reboot your system with the mininux boot disk (just pop it inside),
259 and once you are logged in, switch the disk in the drive with your utility disk
260 -we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted under
261 -<path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to resize your
262 -partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the real fun,
263 -by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now. The drive you
264 -wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want to resize. For
265 -example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda
266 +we have created above and type <c>mount /dev/fd0 /floppy</c> to have parted
267 +under <path>/floppy</path>. There you go. Run parted and you will be able to
268 +resize your partition. Once this lenghty process done, we are ready to have the
269 +real fun, by installing Gentoo. Reboot back into your old Linux system for now.
270 +The drive you wish to operate on is the drive containing the partition we want
271 +to resize. For example, if we want to resize /dev/hda3, the drive is /dev/hda.
272 </p>
273
274 <pre caption="Commands to run once logged into mininux system">
275 @@ -668,12 +671,12 @@
276 Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-9787.148 megabytes
277 Disk label type: msdos
278 Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
279 -1 0.031 2953.125 primary ntfs
280 -3 2953.125 3133.265 primary linux-swap
281 -2 3133.266 5633.085 primary ext3
282 -4 5633.086 9787.148 extended
283 -5 5633.117 6633.210 logical
284 -6 6633.242 9787.148 logical ext3
285 +1 0.031 2953.125 primary ntfs
286 +3 2953.125 3133.265 primary linux-swap
287 +2 3133.266 5633.085 primary ext3
288 +4 5633.086 9787.148 extended
289 +5 5633.117 6633.210 logical
290 +6 6633.242 9787.148 logical ext3
291 (parted) <i> help resize </i>
292 resize MINOR START END resize filesystem on partition MINOR
293
294
295
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