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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:15:13 Maxim Wexler wrote: |
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> > I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to |
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> > put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or |
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> > compiling a second or third kernel. |
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> > I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that |
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> > post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portage and changing |
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> > PORTDIR in make.conf. |
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> > Mount the partitions in the relevant places for installation, |
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> > /mnt/gentoo/var etc. |
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> OK, been staring at this terminal for about an hour. I'm at |
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> root@sysresccd /mnt/gentoo where sda1 is mounted. Do I just mount sdb1 |
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> on /mnt/gentoo too? Do I delete home and var then mkdirs on sdb2? |
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> Won't they just be re-made on the same partition, sda1? I've already |
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> unpacked portage on sdb1(mounted on usr), not a problem, I can just |
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> delete it. But why is it when I umount sdb1 from usr and mount it |
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> under /mnt/gentoo I can't see portage under /mnt/gentoo? It's there |
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> when I mount sdb1 on usr. Do I need to fdisk /dev/sdb with all the |
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> relevant partitions? Then I'll have one big 4G partition on the SSD |
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> and a lot of little partitions on the 8G SD, no? |
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Think about this. |
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You have something mounted at /mnt/gentoo. You want to mount something else at |
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/mnt/gentoo - this will succeed, but what makes you think you will then be |
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able to see the files from the first thing mounted there? |
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Light bulb coming on yet? |
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You have two things to mount, so mount them on *different*directories* and mv |
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files around to your heart's content. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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