On Wednesday 06 October 2004 15:43, Keith Vassallo wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi list, > > I have a system running Debian. I would like to also install Gentoo on > this system and have a dual boot. My question is, how do I have to > organize my partitions to do so? > > I have an 80Gb drive and currently the partition manager (fdisk) > reports the following: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks ID > System > /dev/hda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 852 10011 73577700 W95 > /dev/hda5 852 9949 73079653+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda6 9950 10011 497983+ 82 Linux Swap
1). Share Swap space between both installations. No mileage in creating a swap space per distro. 2). Don't worry about hda2, that is just telling us that the rest of the disk is extended. 3). So we've got approx. 7G on hda1, 73G on hda5 and 256M on hda6. If hda5 is not in use, reconfigure it to be 7G and 64G so you have hda1 7G hda5 7G hda6 65G hda7 256M 4) Install gentoo on hda5 and use hda6 as a common mountpoint between the two distros. That means you now have hda6 and hda7 (swap) common to both. This is just one of many ways you can do it. Cheers -- Andrew Cilia B.Sc. MCSE ICSE RHCT Software Engineer ___________________________________ Philip Toledo Limited Computer & Communications Solutions Notabile Road, Mriehel BKR01, Malta Telephone:+356 21445566 Mobile: +356 99430588 Fax: +356 21484316 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.ptl.com.mt
