Re: [gentoo-user] lvm problem -- is timing?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:12:01 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:

> Ok, I did it! No more LVM! Wiped the SSD and made one partition out of
> it. Mounted it on /mnt/gentoo and unpacked the stage3 tarball. Silly
> question: now what? Where do I mount the SD card prior to unpacking
> portage? Do I make separate partitions on the SD card for each dir I
> need /usr /var /tmp etc? The natural place would seem to be on
> /mnt/gentoo/usr, but what about the other dirs? I should know this;
> I've done it often enough, but only when the other drive held a
> different OS or was strictly for storage. It probably seems obvious to
> you, but I can't see it.

I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
compiling a second or third kernel.

I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that
post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portage and changing
PORTDIR in make.conf.

Mount the partitions in the relevant places for installation, 
/mnt/gentoo/var etc. 


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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