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post #1 of 10
4/22/05 at 2:29pm
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Alright, I'm a newb and I'm gonna start with stage 3 and work my way up as I learn. I wanna run windows and gentoo on this 60GB laptop. I have 15 gigs set for the OS and 15 gigs set for back up data for windows. The last 30 gigs is for gentoo.

So far I've got everything booted up and I've noticed some things that makes me .

I. Drivers

-Where do I get drivers for this?
1. Sound card is unknown
2. Video card is unknown (6800 oc)

II. Dual Boot

-How do I set the partitions?

This is what I see now w/only Windows on:

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Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systems /dev/sda1 * 1 1912 1538108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1913 7295 43238947+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 1913 3824 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I start the partitioning it gives you the option to create under Logical or Primary. Primay has 1-4 and Logical 5-15 (for SATA). Since my windows is already taking 2/4 Primary partitions should I just make gentoo on Logical 5-15?

I tried both ways so far and when I make the boot for gentoo under Primary 3 it works, then I make the linux swap it says the 4th primary can't be used (not exact words but thats what its getting to) and it forces me to make the swap a logical, does this matter? Would it still work if I just did all gentoo partions on logical?

Is it better for to run gentoo all on logical or is it ok (makes no difference?) if the boot is in primary and the swap and root is in logical?

Thats it so far, Please help!

Thanks,

maquy
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post #2 of 10
4/22/05 at 2:30pm
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post #3 of 10
4/22/05 at 4:07pm
I dont know what partition util you are using, but here is the setup I would use if i were you, and similar to what i plan on using for my own i9300 (i'm going to backup and remove the dell hidden partition first, have you done this yet?)

I would make just 3 primary partitions, 2 for ur windows and 1 for gentoo, and break the 3rd primary into logical/extended for gentoo to work with. Hope this helps. I prefer to use partition magic from within windows then reboot to apply changes.
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post #4 of 10
4/22/05 at 4:17pm
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I never let windows even boot up once when I got it. I strait up formatted the whole damn thing and partitioned it with the winxp disk (no utility) and yes I did remove all their gay partitions.

As stated in OP, I have a 15 gb for winxp, 15gb for windows storage and the last 30gb for gentoo.
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post #5 of 10
4/22/05 at 6:08pm
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Originally Posted by maquy
I never let windows even boot up once when I got it.[/color]
nice work!


Okay, so you currently have what looks like 2 primary partitions and 1 extended. your 30 gb partition (the linux extended) is currently nested as an extended partition into your 15GB one (actually 45gb allocated, 30gb of it is the extended partition) You should be able to break this up the other way. And nest the 2 15GB partitions together, on the first half of the drive, and break the 2nd 30gb down for linux. If you don't have partition magic i would take the following steps.

Remove the linux 30gb partition. and resize the remaining 45gb one down to the 15gb you want it to be. this will leave 30gb blank space at the end of the drive. Then use the partitioning util with linux to partition the rest.
I hope this is clear, not too confusing. I believe some of my terminoligy may be wrong when noting Primary vs Logical Vs Extended but i hope i've made it easy enough to understand.
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post #6 of 10
4/23/05 at 12:53am
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Originally Posted by maquy
Alright, I'm a newb and I'm gonna start with stage 3 and work my way up as I learn. I wanna run windows and gentoo on this 60GB laptop. I have 15 gigs set for the OS and 15 gigs set for back up data for windows. The last 30 gigs is for gentoo.

So far I've got everything booted up and I've noticed some things that makes me .

I. Drivers

-Where do I get drivers for this?
1. Sound card is unknown
2. Video card is unknown (6800 oc)

II. Dual Boot

-How do I set the partitions?

This is what I see now w/only Windows on:

PHP Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id Systems /dev/sda1 * 1 1912 1538108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda2 1913 7295 43238947+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda3 1913 3824 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
When I start the partitioning it gives you the option to create under Logical or Primary. Primay has 1-4 and Logical 5-15 (for SATA). Since my windows is already taking 2/4 Primary partitions should I just make gentoo on Logical 5-15?

I tried both ways so far and when I make the boot for gentoo under Primary 3 it works, then I make the linux swap it says the 4th primary can't be used (not exact words but thats what its getting to) and it forces me to make the swap a logical, does this matter? Would it still work if I just did all gentoo partions on logical?

Is it better for to run gentoo all on logical or is it ok (makes no difference?) if the boot is in primary and the swap and root is in logical?

Thats it so far, Please help!

Thanks,

maquy
Gentoo Documentation Resources

All your drivers are part of the kernel. You can skip ahead in the install doc to kernel installation to read up on this(i can share my kernel .config with you if need). You will need to install nvidia-kernel to use there proprietary drivers and possibly ipw2200 if you have the intel wireless card.
your sound card is an intel8x0.

Best bet is do a logical partition and create your "/boot" "/" "/home" "swap" inside this. But it really doesnt matter except you can only have 4 primary partitions.

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Shawn
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post #7 of 10
4/23/05 at 4:40am
yeah, what he said.
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post #8 of 10
4/24/05 at 2:51pm
I'm really confused as to waht he is doing... am i alone

maquy, use gentoo wiki and no offence but RTFM as much as you can. Also get on irc.freenode.net i think thats wut it is... anway its freenode and join #gentoo. Those guys know their stuff.
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post #9 of 10
4/25/05 at 12:33pm
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great links guys, thanks!

and shawnifoley I might have to hold you too that
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post #10 of 10
4/25/05 at 4:52pm
You should also be aware that unless you are running this as a server, or doing some hardcore graphic design, you probably don't need a swap partition if you have 512mb ram or more. The swap was used on older Linux machines to compensate for a lack of ram and process power. The newer computers are full of ram, so you don't necessarily need swap partions.
Eric
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