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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

Hi,
i want to install gentoo 2005.0 AMD64, to my SECOND ide hard drive. How do i do this?

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cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

go throught the install instructions and swap the first hard drive (normally hda or sda) for hdb or sdb.

Make sure it is set in your grub.conf as well
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

wow fast reply thnx. Btw which file system should i use?

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

jesus, dont ask this... It all depends on the size of the files. ext3 is probably your best bet, reiserfs (3.6) is good (i use it) reiser4 is..... no comment..... try reiserfs
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 5:06 pm Post subject:

JediPottsy,

Use ext2 for /boot and ext3 for most other things.
ext2 is not journelled, so that saves 32Mb on small filesystems
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

ok, i typed in

# mke2fs /dev/hdb1
mke2fs 1.35 (28-feb-2004)
/dev/hdb1 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!
# mke2fs -j /dev/hdb3

mke2fs 1.35 (28-feb-2004)
/dev/hdb3 is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!

# mkswap /dev/hdb2
setting up swapspace version1, size = 518184 kB

# swapon /dev/hdb2
swapon: /dev/hdb3: Device or resource busy

whats gone wrong?

Seph64 · Apprentice Joined: 13 May 2003 Posts: 191

You have to make sure the drives/partitions are not mounted before formatting them. What's the output of mount -l?

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

Did you clean the partitions before trying to install and mount the new filesystems on hdb?
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

i dont know what that means...i tried mount-l and it said

-/bin/bash : mount-l: command not found

never mind, i deleted partitions, saved (w)
then remade the partitions and it seems to be working

cokey · Advocate Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 3355

just type

JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

its ok now, its working, and im downloading the snapshot

thnx .... dont worry ill prolly get stuck again...somewhere else

JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

ok downloaded the portage, what do i have to do now? (i chose stage3) do i have to
Configuring the Compile Options?

shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

JediPottsy, If you don't read that friggin' manual thrice before asking that particular question it's "Boom! To the moon.."
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:00 pm Post subject:

shade266,

Now, have patience with the noob. We have a case of youth being wasted on the young here.
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

sorry, i just saw this:
Warning: Although it might be tempting for non-stage1 users, they should not change the CHOST setting in make.conf. Doing so might render their system unusable. Again: only change this variable if you use a stage1 installation.

and didnt know weather to change or not.
Ok, im using a amd64, should i use

-mtune=k8 -02 -pipe
or
-march=athlon64 -02 -pipe

?

and then keep

cxxflags="${cflags}"

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

JediPottsy,

mtune is the new way march the old way, they both work for now.
You want

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shade266 · Guru Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Posts: 593 Location: Internal

JediPottsy, I apologize to you. I have been through just as much frustraation and insanity as the rest of the new users to gentoo or linux altogether. But it will definitely serve a genuine purpose of learning if you read and absorb the info in the guides and the forums. But I have confidence in you.
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

damn

ive done

CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"

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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

phew
thought id have to start over again.
ok im just running genkernel.....i hope theres not much more to go

it says

>>compiling 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 bzimage....

its been on that for a while.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 7:03 pm Post subject:

JediPottsy,

Rule 1 You never need to 'start over'
Thats a bad habit you get from other Operating Systems.

Rule 2. See rule 1
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JediPottsy · n00b Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 16

im guessing tht means ive learnt bad habbits from m$.....
ok neway, its moved to

compiling 2.6.11-gentoo-r3 modules

i do like the nice purple bar at the bottom...

neway, is it this hard to get css to work on linux aswell?