[gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, hawat.thufir@×××××.com wrote:

> From: hawat.thufir@×××××.com
> Subject: core packages for a dual-boot system
>
> I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over
> from fedora.
>
> as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, "/mnt/windows".
>
> [thufir@localhost ~]$
> [thufir@localhost ~]$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
>                      17394484  14690156   1806488  90% /
> /dev/hda2               101105     18104     77780  19% /boot
> /dev/shm                111860         0    111860   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1             11451144   9922200   1528944  87% /mnt/windows
> [thufir@localhost ~]$ date
> Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006
> [thufir@localhost ~]$
>

4.b. Designing a Partitioning Scheme

Default Partitioning Scheme

If you are not interested in drawing up a partitioning scheme for your 
system, you can use the partitioning scheme we use throughout this book:
Partition 	Filesystem 	Size 	Description
/dev/hda1 	ext2 	32M 	Boot partition
/dev/hda2 	(swap) 	512M 	Swap partition
/dev/hda3 	ext3 	Rest of the disk 	Root partition


<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=4#fdisk>


So, I want something like:
Partition 	Filesystem 	Size 	Description
/dev/hda1 	ext2 	32M 	Boot partition
/dev/hda2 	(swap) 	512M 	Swap partition
/dev/hda3 	ext3 	??? 	Root partition
/dev/hda4	fat32


I'm concerned about overwriting the windows partition, or mucking up the 
dual-boot bootloader.

There are directions at 
<http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot#Single_Drive_Install_.28Windows_Pre-Installed.29>, 
but I'd like to have it all worked out ahead of time for my own sake.

Perhaps I don't even need to format anything?


-Thufir
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