Going from FC5 to Gentoo tonight...

[BrandonF]

I've gotten all the way through the installation process except for one thing. I'm confused about the end of it. I have three partitions: one NTFS for Windows, one for Linux (currently FC5), and one for swap space. The only thing I want to do is replace FC5 with Gentoo, I don't want to change the other two partitions (especially not Windows, the rest of my family still needs it). Anyway, when I'm setting up my partitions, can I just change the Linux one by the mount point and set it to "/"? Will that erase JUST THAT partition? The only reason I'm worried about it changing the others is that at the very end, when it gives an overview of everything, the Windows partition shows up on the list (all of them show up). It just says that it's an NTFS partition, and everything in the parenthesis says "none."

[cyblord]

hey, welcome to the forum!

are you installing your system with the graphical installer?

I'd really recommend you to use the minimal installation cd. you'll have to install your system manually that way, but you'll learn tons more.

everything should be explained in the gentoo handbook.

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml

[zietbukuel]

Hello and welcome to Gentoo!

First, don't worry about your ntfs partition, it won't be touched if you don't tell the partition tool you are using to do so. If you want to replace FC5 with Gentoo just boot into the livecd(minimal or grafical, it doesn't matter) and install Gentoo manually using the handbook, as cyblord said, you'll learn a lot more this way than using the graphical installer.
Good luck!!

[BrandonF]

Thanks. I'm not using the graphical installer because that won't work. After I boot up the LiveCD (the 697mb one, not minimal) it goes through a little bit in the CLI then tries to load X. It gives me some error so I just leave that and type `installer' to install with the command line. But does that mean X probably won't work once I get Gentoo installed?

[BrandonF]

Well, now I've got a problem. I got Gentoo installed alright the first time, but I picked Grub as my bootloader and it didn't detect my Windows partition. So I reinstalled it and picked Lilo, which detects it, but X won't work. I can't get Gentoo to be graphical, which is a big problem. When I first boot it up, it gives me an error about it. Then I log in in the command line, and type startx, but it gives me another error.

[zietbukuel]

Hi, add these line to your /boot/grub/grub.conf

[BrandonF]

Thanks. I think I have X installed, but I'll try to emerge it manually and see what happens. If that doesn't work...I guess I'll have to reinstall again. Oh and the error I got was just that X failed to load.

[thorpe]