[Sussex] Gentoo and laptop....

[Geoff Teale]

Mark,

Just want to second John's advice.

Back up your hd and use a non-destructive repartitioning tool to make space.  

The Gentoo boot disk provides you with fdisk/cfdisk.  

A standard Gentoo build (as per instructions) requires 3 partitions:

/boot <= 100MB
/	
swap

having boot as a seperate partition is optional, but that's what the 
installation instructions expect.

Gentoo and Windows should happily coexist but make sure you print out (or have 
access to) the documentation on how to set up a Win2000/nt bootloader in grub 
or LILO config files.

If you print off the current Gentoo install instructions these cover WinXP  
bootloading with grub which AFAIK is identical to Win2k bootloading,  you can 
find this at:

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml

.. please, for your own sake, follow these instructions to the letter for your 
first build - this is a fairly simple process if you do, but it can become 
hideous if you miss something.  Trust the docs!

-- 
GJT
Free Software Foundation
tealeg at member.fsf.org