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Mr Tickle
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 Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 1:07 am Post subject: A partition Question |
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Hi All,
I'm very much a noob but I've decided to try gentoo... A> Because it will force me to learn about linux and B> I like the idea of knowing everything that's installed and it's optimised for my pc.
In my system I have 2 phyical HD's:-
Drive 1
C: Win XP ntfs
D: ntfs
E: ntfs
Drive 2
F: ntfs
Ext3 (13G) with MDK10
I have an Athlon XP2500+ and plan to use the 2.4.x kernel so that I can use my speedtouch usb (green) modem.
Qestion 1: How would I set up Grub if I were to install gentoo to the Ext3 partition of the 2nd HD? At the moment it had mdk10 on and is a single partition / I will partition it as suggested in the gentoo installation manual.
Question 2: I would like to keep mdk10 on this partition. I'm going to reinstall it before installing gentoo. But How should I partition to enable 2 versions of linux? Which partitions can be shared between them and which should have their own partitions?
Thanks in advance 
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chINeSe mIDgEts
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 2:00 am Post subject: |
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ok here we go:
>root (boot partition)
>setup (hd1)
>quit
#nano -w /boot/grub/grub.conf
GRUB.conf:
| Code: | default 0
timeout (amount of time you want in seconds)
splashimage=(boot partition)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title=Gentoo Linux 2.6
root (your boot partition)
kernel /kernel-2.6-gentoo root=/dev/hdb(root partition)
title=Windows XP
rootnoverify (win xp drive)
chainloader +1
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hummm....i like the 2.6 kernel, if your modem isn't supported i suggest getting a new one that is ( but thats just my preference )
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Mr Tickle
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| Posted: Tue May 04, 2004 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Thanks
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