I followed the gentoo handbook but now I think this might go wrong. It told me to untar the gentoo sources in /mnt/gentoo. Now I did this but I'm now just before bootstrapping and I quickly read further into the guide. Nowhere did it say anything about partitions, just that it would install. Does that mean that if I go on it goes on installing gentoo over my debian install, i.e. that I have to untar the gentoo files on the other partition and start from there again to do it the way I want?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handboo...intable&full=1

These are just excepts.. but please go through it thoroughly.....


4.c. Using fdisk to Partition your Disk

The following parts explain how to create the example partition layout described previously, namely:
Partition Description
/dev/hda1 Boot partition
/dev/hda2 Swap partition
/dev/hda3 Root partition

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4.e. Mounting

Now that your partitions are initialized and are housing a filesystem, it is time to mount those partitions. Use the mount command. Don't forget to create the necessary mount directories for every partition you created. As an example we mount the root and boot partition:

Code Listing 15: Mounting partitions

# mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/gentoo
# mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot


In the above case the partitions were created on hda .. and the root partition is /dev/hda3 [So ur ---> /mnt/gentoo is in the root partition [/dev/hda3] of ur hard-disk ]

Oops probably was distracted by all the fdisk stuff I didn't have to do anymore.