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At Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:38:43 +0200 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> On Thursday 14 July 2005 16:39, Mark Humphrey wrote: |
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>> Hi there |
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>> I'm new to Gentoo and I'm currently running WinXP at home. I'd like to |
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>> know how I should go about an installation with release 2005.0 to make |
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>> it a dual boot with XP, but upgrade to KDE 3.4.1? |
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> first, read the instructions on gentoo.org. If you do not want to print |
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> everything, you should at least take some notes. |
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> Read them again, look out for other helpfull guides. |
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> The examples are always helpfull, you might want to write them down, too. |
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> After that use your favorite partition tool, to make some free space on your |
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> harddisk. PartitionMagic should be able to do this and a lot more. google is |
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> your friend |
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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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> Do not use PartitionMagic to create the linux-partitions! This will |
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> sometimes cause some very delicate problems. |
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> After that, install into that partitions like described in the guides. |
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> Will take 24h- some days, depends on your CPU and ram. |
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Very good advice. |
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Good luck, |
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allan |
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