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Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>>Boot from the gentoo cd. Now use cfdisk to make at least two partitions into |
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>>the free space, / and /boot. |
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>Don't you also need swap? /boot is desirable, but not required. |
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You can create a swap file at any time..so a partition is really not |
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necessary here. There may be some performance difference between a swap |
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partition or a swap file, but hard disks are so friggin slow these days |
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when compared to RAM and CPU that nobody really cares. |
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Be careful about /boot, many systems today still ship with borken LBA |
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implementations in BIOS that prevent access to cylinders above 8GB. It |
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is *always* safest to have /boot, and to make it the first partition on |
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the disk. |
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-Richard |
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