Partition question

[wkl_lau]

Hi I am new to gentoo, and its installation routine does not seems to include partitoning. I mean, like setting /dev/hda6 as /home, /dev/hda7 as /var..... I came from a redhat/suse background and those distro always has such setting during install. I know somehow I have to play around with fstab, but when? The handbook does say mount /dev/hda6 (my /) /mnt/gentoo, but what does that mean? Does it mean /mnt/gentoo has all the files for / ?

any help is appeciated


"If yo can't fix it, it ain't broken"

[SlicerDicer]

[wkl_lau]

But when should I set the rest of my partition?

This is my setup:
/dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda5 swap
/dev/hda6 /
/dev/hda7 /usr
/dev/hda8 /opt
/dev/hda9 /tmp
/dev/hda10 /var

When should I do this?

Thx V much

[SlicerDicer]

[Derklopfer2k]

After booting from the LiveCD /mnt/gentoo is your location for your / after installation.

In ordert to set your individual layout, the first thing you must do is to mount your / (/dev/hda6) at /mnt/gentoo. If you don't do this, your /dev/hda6 will remain empty after installation.

Also, first step: mount /dev/hda6 /mnt/gentoo

Then you must create the dir layout coresponding to your partitions except for swap:

mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/tmp
...
...
and so on, till you have for each partition an coresponding directory.

Than chmod 1777 for each dir you created.

After that you mount every partiton to his dir:

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda9 /mnt/gentoo/tmp
...
...
and so on till you have mount each partition you need for installation (handbook chapter 4.e. - and don't forget o create the filesystem befor mounting as describt in chapter 4.d.).

At this point the fstab is not relevant. You wil create your own fstab after chrooting to /mnt/gentoo as explaind in Chapter 8 of the handbook.

[wkl_lau]

OK, but why chmod 1777 for each dir??

thx