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Am Freitag, 2. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Knecht: |
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> My Windows Vista laptop ate the big one from M$ and died under the |
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> weight of Windows Update. The hardware seems to check out fine |
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> overnight so I'm going to finally do dual boot on this machine like I |
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> wanted to when I bought it. |
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> Data: |
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> 80GB hard drive |
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> 2GB DRAM |
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> Questions: |
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> 1) What's the recommended order to install dual boot today. I prefer |
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> to go Gentoo first, XP second. Any issues? |
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Dunno. All machines I ever setup as dual boot had Windows pre-installed, so I |
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can only say: There are no issues when installing Windows first. |
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> 2) What recommendations do folks have about splitting an 80GB drive |
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> up. I'm thinking of maybe 50-60GB for Gentoo, followed by Win XP using |
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> 20-30GB at the end of the drive. Partitions? I'm considering: |
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> sda1 -> /boot = 50MB |
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> sda2 -> swap (unsure whether I should dedicate 4GB to this. That's 5% |
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> of my drive and I won't likely ever use all of 2GB or RAM.) |
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> sda3 -> /var = 2GB |
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> sda4 ==extended |
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> sda5 -> / balance of Linux side, say 55GB |
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> sda6 == Windows drive C: |
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> Any and all comments and ideas welcomed. |
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Here they are: I mostly keep 20G for Windows, but it could well be 10 :-) |
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My setup: |
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sda1 -> Windows |
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sda2 -> /boot, ext2, 32m. |
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sda3 -> /, xfs, 256m (Setting up this way frees you from using initramfs) |
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sda4 -> LVM, for everything else. |
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LVM Setup (one volume group having the machine name in its name, like |
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/dev/<machine-name>_vg00/<volume>, with <volume> being: |
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usr -> /usr, xfs, starting with 3G, growing on demand |
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var -> /var, xfs, 1G |
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opt -> /opt, xfs, 1G |
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johndoe -> /home/johndoe, xfs, size depends |
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overlays -> /gentoo/overlays, xfs, 1G (portage tree and overlays) |
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build -> /gentoo/build, xfs, size depends (up to 6G if you want to build OOo) |
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distfiles -> /gentoo/distfiles, xfs, 2G |
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swap -> swap, swap, 2G (optional) |
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whatever you need in addition. |
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You wrote this is a laptop, so if you consider encrypting the volumes |
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(incl. /) you need an initramfs anyway, which means you could also put / on a |
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logical volume (in which case the above would change to: sda3 -> LVM and |
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root -> /, xfs, 256m). |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |
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