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Alan E. Davis schrieb: |
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> Now, however, I've tried three or four times to install on an existing |
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> partition. Grub will not install over the ubuntu grub, or else |
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> something else is crazy. |
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Why do you do this at all? Grub is already in your MBR, so why bother |
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with it again? |
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> May I ask a few questions? |
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> - Live CD only installs over a clean partition. How can I resume |
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> an installation? |
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Boot the CD again, perform the steps to mount your already created |
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filesystems (incl. bind-mount of /proc and/dev, enter chroot and start |
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with (or after) the last step you finished before. |
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> - I only have a unsupported atheros wifi card for connection. I've |
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> been using it for years. No easy way to connect by wire. Any ideas? |
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On x86 they're supported by madwifi, isn't this true for amd64? |
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> - I have an 80GB fast SATA drive and three slower 7000 RPM drives. |
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> What partitions are best kept on the fast drive to maximize |
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> performance (I have basically an all purpose workstation). |
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I don't think you'll see much difference. However, with a setup like |
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this, I would look into using LVM or EVMS logical volumes eventually |
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combined with a software RAID5 over the three slower discs (in case |
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they're equal in size. |
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My /home |
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> will be about 100GB: is it wiser to split it up into a smaller core |
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> /home with several slower archive and storage partitions (Library, |
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> Project archives, Videos, Music)? |
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I usually use one LV for each user's ~ (/home/johndoe, not /home). This |
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way, I can increase size for each user individually w/o having to setup |
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quota. I can even use different filesystems depending on users needs |
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(i.e. large media files are best kept on XFS). In addition, I can also |
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setup kernel automounter (autofs), so that they're only mounted when the |
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user is really logged in. |
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> - Advice about UUIDs? I lost a partition (a large one) over a |
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> misidentification of a partition when the Ubuntu scheme started |
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> swapping around names of devices. Old /dev/hda became /dev/sda and |
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> old /dev/sda became /dev/sdb. What a mess that turned out to be. |
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This can't happen with logical volumes, because they get a unique name |
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of the form /dev/<volume group>/<volume>. |
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Here's my setup: |
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sda1: /boot (~64M, ext2) |
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If you don't want to use an initramfs: |
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sda2: / (256M, xfs) |
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sda3: LVM (to end of disc, no fs) |
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If you use an initramfs: |
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sda2: LVM (to end of disc, no fs) |
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Then create LVs for everything else: |
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/usr: /dev/vg-machinename/usr (3G, xfs) |
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/var: /dev/vg-machinename/var (1G, xfs) |
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/opt: /dev/vg-machinename/opt (1G, xfs) |
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/home/user1: /dev/vg-machinename/user1 (1G, xfs) |
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/home/user2: /dev/vg-machinename/user2 (1G, xfs) |
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swap (if needed): /dev/vg-machinename/swap (twice the RAM) |
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Some Gentoo related volumes: |
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/gentoo/distfiles: /dev/vg-machinename/distfiles (2G, xfs) |
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/gentoo/build: /dev/vg-machinename/build (2G, xfs) |
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/gentoo/overlays: /dev/vg-machinename/overlays (1G, xfs) (portage tree goes |
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into /gentoo/overlays/portage) |
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However, in your case, I'd use the 80G disc as a system disc with one volume |
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group (system-<machinename>) and setup the three slower drives as either RAID |
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5 or JBOD, containing a second VG (data-<machinename>), where the first hosts |
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/boot, /, /usr, /var, /opt, swap and the /gentoo volumes, while the seconds |
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hosts all the /home volumes and additional data volumes (/data/music, |
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/data/photos, ...) which are shared by several users. |
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HTH... |
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Dirk |