On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 04:40, Matt Garman wrote: > I'm currently running a Debian Linux system. I'd like to move over to > gentoo, but I'm not exactly sure what the easiest way would be.
Great! The plethora of docs on the gentoo site will get you through it. You could either use Gentoo GRP precompiled packages to save time in which case you'd have to use 1.4 rc2 or you could compile the entire system from scratch in which case you could use any installer latest of which is 1.4 rc3. Note that all installers get you to the same point in remaining up to date. > Mainly from the perspective of partitions: I have separate partitions > for root, boot, home, var, tmp and usr. I want to wipe all those > clean, except for home, and install gentoo. Gentoo requires a /boot (100MB) for kernels to save corruptions and a main partition. If you like you could have a separate one for /usr/portage or /usr/portage distfiles but anything more than the initial two is not really necessary although /home is a good idea. > Should I just manually remove everything from all my partitions > (except home)? Or will gentoo do that for me during installation? If > the latter case is true, how do I keep /home from getting erased? The Gentoo installation is by policy entirely commandline and is manual so you have complete freedom over what you do. At one point you'll have to mount partitions and create filesystems so you'll have the oppportunity to pick which partition you'd like to be for each purpose. Nothing is wiped by default. > One more semi-related question: to make sure I understand this > conceptually, using a "stage 3" install should get me up and running > the most quickly, but I can still custom-compile most (or all?) of the > stage 3 programs, right? On the first point yes. After you have a full system you can recompile the entire set of packages with custom USE flags and CFLAGS but if you were going to do this then a stage1 install would be the wiser option. My personal preferences are to install from stage1, have /usr/portage/distfiles mounted on server and nfs shared across nodes, ext3 for /boot and reiserfs for all others. For CFlags look at the following links. http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3opt.html http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=5717 Good luck! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
