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