How to partition my disk?

igsen · 09-07-2011, 06:27 PM

I will try gentoo for the first time.
This is how my disk looks like

Code:

# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a78bb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       14593   117216768    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           14594       19458    39071745    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           14594       19252    37422080   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           19252       19458     1648640   82  Linux swap / Solaris

What I want to do is get some space on ntfs partition and install gentoo from there. I know I can do that by gparted but what I want are figures as to how much disk space and what kind of sytem will I use for that space.
Can somebody please design a partitioning scheme for me to try.
I have burned the minimal install x86 cd and ready to fdisk my drive.

andrewthomas · 09-07-2011, 06:43 PM

The first thing that you need to do is to shrink your windows partition from within windows.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...uacy-problems/

Then you can use GParted to expand your extended partition to encompass the newly-created free-space.

Then, you can create an ext4 partition (out of the free-space in the extended partition) to house gentoo (you can use your existing swap partition.)

igsen · 09-07-2011, 08:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

The first thing that you need to do is to shrink your windows partition from within windows.

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...windows-vista/

http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windo...uacy-problems/

Then you can use GParted to expand your extended partition to encompass the newly-created free-space.

Then, you can create an ext4 partition (out of the free-space in the extended partition) to house gentoo (you can use your existing swap partition.)

Wow! that was a lightning fast reply indeed.Thank you.
Unfortunately, xp has no facility to resize partition. Anyway, gparted will take care of that.
I'll try to create an ext4 partition and use the existing swap. I'll report back...

andrewthomas · 09-07-2011, 08:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by igsen

Unfortunately, xp has no facility to resize partition.

Yes it does (see edit.) But GParted will do the job alright.

EDIT: OK, XP does not. I guess that I have not had an XP install in so long that I was not remembering correctly.

igsen · 09-07-2011, 09:55 PM

My partitioning after gparted.

Code:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000a78bb

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       11488    92274688    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           14594       19458    39071745    5  Extended
/dev/sda3           11488       14593    24941568   83  Linux
/dev/sda5           14594       19252    37422080   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           19252       19458     1648640   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

I will now to proceed to my first gentoo install.

igsen · 09-08-2011, 07:33 PM

...my installation was not successful. I had problems with networking, I suspect. Need to do more research.

andrewthomas · 09-08-2011, 07:53 PM

What problem are you having with networking?

post the output of

Code:

rc-update show

During previous installs /etc/init.d/net.eth0 did not exist.

I have had to link /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo

Code:

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0

Of course, you need to compile your network driver into your kernel.

http://www.kernel-seeds.org

is a great resource for kernel compilation.

igsen · 09-09-2011, 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by andrewthomas

What problem are you having with networking?

post the output of

Code:

rc-update show

During previous installs /etc/init.d/net.eth0 did not exist.

I have had to link /etc/init.d/net.eth0 to /etc/init.d/net.lo

Code:

ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth0

Of course, you need to compile your network driver into your kernel.

http://www.kernel-seeds.org

is a great resource for kernel compilation.

I was not able to download stage 3 tarball because I cant connect to the net.Hardware configurations maybe.
I need more preparations... but I'm not giving up.

andrewthomas · 09-09-2011, 05:57 AM

Your Ubuntu installation has internet access,no?

Download the stage3 tarball and the portage-latest from your Ubuntu install.

Mount your Gentoo partition and copy the files over with sudo.