<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,<br><br><b><u>What I'm doing</u></b><br>I'm trying to bring an old computer back to life by letting my children play on it. To do this, I'm also trying to learn and playing with installing Gentoo. Configuration:<br>
<ol><li>fakeraid</li><li>two disks joined in Raid0</li><li>running multiple partitions (mainly to help me learn about the myriad of possibilities)<br></li></ol></div><br><b><u>Where I've got to</u></b><br>I've understood how to create partitions on the '/dev/mapper/xyz' device rather than the individual disks themselves. I've created the various filesystems on the partitions.<br>
<br>I'm using <a href="http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid">http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid</a> , as well as <a href="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Partition/">http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/Partition/</a> to help me along.<br>
<br><b><u>My question</u></b><br>I'm using the Gentoo help article as my main source of information. It's based on a 3-partition setup, so, I'm trying to understand one particular aspect in order to try to apply it to my setup. The article, where it details mounting, talks about "mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_abiccada4 /mnt/gentoo", then "mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot" and finally "mount /dev/mapper/nvidia_abiccada1 /mnt/gentoo/boot". Now, I understand mounting the various partitions to form the filesystem tree, but I don't understand why the 'boot' directory is created, because, I have a specific 'boot' partition. Can anyone help with this. I'm hoping that once I understand this (possibly) small point, I'll be able to adapt the procedure to my setup.<br>
<br>Many thanks and have a great long weekend everyone!<br><br>Regards,<br>Mike<br></div>