Dual Hard-Drive Installing Problem

[cyber-menace]

I'm having some trouble with installing Gentoo. I have two EXT3 partitions made on my Slave drive /dev/hdb5 is the device I want to install Gentoo on. I think something went wrong during the installation procedures.

I have the universal LiveCD right now, I booted it and followed all of the instructions given, but when I reached the emerge --sync, it only downloaded a little bit of data and then started reporting "Device is out of space" errors. I don't know which device it is downloading to, but the device I want to use has 15GB of space.

How to I configure Gentoo to install in /dev/hdb5 using the Universal LiveCD and booting from the CD. My boot partition that is currently in use is /dev/hda which Windows 98SE uses.

I need help with this as soon as possible, I want to try out Gentoo to see if it is better than Mandrake or Slackware, and I also want to start this install tonight.

[TheRAt]

Think you might have missed an instruction or two, or are downloading the files in the ram disk created by the LiveCD..
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[donjuan]

I think what happened is you didn't mount the right partition in the right place. Did you mount /dev/hdb5 to /mnt/gentoo? Maybe you forgot to reformat it.

Are you saying that you don't have a /boot parition yet? Why not just create one on /dev/hdb? Some people just don't use one and keep their kernel image on the / partition, but that's generally discouraged.
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[cyber-menace]

This is the problem with working with something like that at 1 in the morning. I forgot the most obvious thing... to mount my hard drive.

I now have a boot partition and am currently installing X11, KDE, and Gnome so I can actually have a graphical interface.