[Sussex] Sundays' Worthing Show + A general gentoo question.

[John D.]

@ Steve Dobson (mainly).

As per the request at the moot, I'm just looking at a 40gig seagate HDD
now. I should be able to drop it by (too the show), though I can't stay
long as Sundays' family din din time :-| 

I don't know if you're likely to have net access of any sort, just in
case things go the shape of a well known summer/autumn fruit usually
served in syrup. Cos if so, I'll e-mail the list but AFAIK I should be
able to get it to you!

@ anyone else who uses gentoo,

I've pretty much got this new install sorted (I think), just about to
install the Sun JDK, but one thing is puzzling me,

My partitioning config (for a while now) is, windows XP on hda1, /boot
on hda2, /swap on hda3, hda4 extended to having /root on hda5 and /home
on hda6.

Now it's my understanding, that when I did the nice new shiney gentoo
install, as I only set the system/app's etc to go onto the /root
partition, any customisation that I did with app's in my /home partition
should still be there, i.e. as long as I installed the same app's, I
should be able to use the customisations/personalisations, and not loose
any other data, like e-mail etc etc.

So, is there any way, or even any app that I'd have to install so that I
know where things are working from ??

It may be that I'm being extraordinarily thick, but I'm presuming that
when I'm logged in as user or root, I'd still be working into/from the
/home partition, and not like from the /root partition and a home
directory like when a system is installed into just the one partition?
(or have I got my head completely up my **** when it comes to
understanding how multi partitioned systems work???)

regards

John D.