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Hey I'm just stuffing around with a few distros at the moment, and I'm looking at gentoo and slackware, I'm in the process of emerging kde and I still got a fair bit left, I want to install slackware on a separate partition, so I can chose to boot into either slackware, gentoo or XP from grub.
I'm not really sure how I should partition this, shouI have 2 seperate root and boot partitions ect.... can they share the same swap partition? I have no idea....
also I have been emerging kde for about 4.5 hours on my 2gHz athlon-xp with 512 mb ram, approximatly how many hours left, its up to package number 50 or something
cheers.
also could anyone tell me some pros and cons comparing gentoo and slackware (or any other suggestions)
I basically don't need linux for anything, I just thought I may as well use it instead of windows because I'm a strong supporter of open source software and I basically only use my computer for music, and internet browsing, which linux can support equally as good as windows. I also thought I may as well run linux because then I will be learning something as well. The stabuility and perfermance also come into it a little I suppose.
So what distro should I use?
(I heard slackware is good if you want to learn)
mdwatts
07-11-2003, 08:31 AM
Originally posted by eX0
also could anyone tell me some pros and cons comparing gentoo and slackware (or any other suggestions)
Have a look at the 'Which Linux is best' thread in the Technical forum as that should discuss Gentoo and Slackware.
Also visit each of their sites to find out more about their distros.
Originally posted by eX0
Hey I'm just stuffing around with a few distros at the moment, and I'm looking at gentoo and slackware, I'm in the process of emerging kde and I still got a fair bit left, I want to install slackware on a separate partition, so I can chose to boot into either slackware, gentoo or XP from grub.
I'm not really sure how I should partition this, shouI have 2 seperate root and boot partitions ect.... can they share the same swap partition? I have no idea....
also I have been emerging kde for about 4.5 hours on my 2gHz athlon-xp with 512 mb ram, approximatly how many hours left, its up to package number 50 or something
cheers.
if you follow the Gentoo install instructions, you will have a separate /boot partition which is the recommended way to set up Gentoo.
the slackware install can share the /boot with gentoo easily as well as the swap. they each need their own / partitions.
if you didn't already have xfree emerged when you started to emerge kde, it will be a while but not 50 hours.
Originally posted by eX0
also could anyone tell me some pros and cons comparing gentoo and slackware (or any other suggestions)
I basically don't need linux for anything, I just thought I may as well use it instead of windows because I'm a strong supporter of open source software and I basically only use my computer for music, and internet browsing, which linux can support equally as good as windows. I also thought I may as well run linux because then I will be learning something as well. The stabuility and perfermance also come into it a little I suppose.
So what distro should I use?
(I heard slackware is good if you want to learn)
this is a completely subjective question. check out distrowatch.com and do some searches like mdwatts suggested. we already have enough "what distro should i use threads" to last us a lifetime. :)
je_fro
07-11-2003, 08:34 AM
They're very different.
I like Gentoo because all you have to do is "emerge" whatever you want. (I'd say you've got about 8-12 hours more of KDE to watch...just wait 'till openoffice!!! LOL) There are scripts to control everything, which makes it different from alot of other distros. (I mean like the wierd scripts)
As for partitioning for a new distro, if you're not paranoid about security (separate /home /tmp /var partitions) you could re-use the same /boot and swap, and just make another / partition to load another OS on. IMHO, be sure to use GRUB and post back with more questions.
:p
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Oh yeah, AND READ THE WICH LINUX THREAD, DANGIT!!!!
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yeh I'll check that thread out mdwatts...
hayl: I did emerge xfree and I think it will take about another 2 hours but I justt wanted an estimate of how long it should take... I do have a seperate /boot partition for gentoo, but I was unsure whether to create a whole new root partition for a second distribution or what.
I thought about it and I assume I do
yeh I think I know what to do, thats what I had in mind je_fro...
I'll just merge the rest of kde tonight when I go to bed and it should be done by mourning (hopefully), I didn't realise you could resume it and I got fed up and cancelled it cause I wanted to use my computer, then I realised I could have cancelled then resumed the whole time. I'm dreading the open office emerge aha.
Slackware CD still has 2 hours to download so I can't do anything linux for at at least 2 hours :(
mdwatts
07-11-2003, 10:26 AM
Originally posted by eX0
done by mourning (hopefully)
Only if it doesn't work. :)
In the morning if it does.
I just emerged kde for a few hours and it took 2 hours for it to do one package! is that normal? (is that what you call the little thingys? packages?) I've still got 29 of the bastards left too...
Hopefully that was just a big one.
je_fro
07-11-2003, 11:34 AM
It's going to take awhile. Like I never stick around long enough to find out how long it really takes...
:(
yeh my probablem is I tend to sit there staring at the screen for hours on end thinking "it will finish any moment now!" I gotta learn to just leave it, the main problem is I'm on holidays at the moment and not doing much else...
mdwatts
07-11-2003, 12:08 PM
Originally posted by eX0
I'm on holidays at the moment and not doing much else...
Read all the Gentoo online documentation and visit their forums to review some of the problems (and solutions) you might encounter.
Lots of other Linux documentation all over the web.
:)
hey I was just wondering if I partition my linux partitions with partition magic (to resize them to a smaller size) so I can fit in another partition for slackware, could I risk stuffing things up?
just trying to see how many time I could fit partition into a sentance...(jk)
je_fro
07-11-2003, 01:37 PM
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k vfat noauto,users,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hda2 /boot reiserfs noauto,noatime,notail 1 1
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs noatime 0 0
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home/je_fro reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home/media reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda9 /home/je_fro/shared vfat auto,users,umask=000 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/oldboot ext2 noauto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/B2 ext3 noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/B5 vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/B6 reiserfs users,noauto,rw 0 0
#/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0
/dev/ttyS1 /mnt/camera vfat noauto,users,rw 0 0
#/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdburner iso9660 noauto,users,rwx 0 0
/dev/sr0 /mnt/dvdburner iso9660 noauto,users,rwx 0 0
/dev/sr1 /mnt/cdburner iso9660 noauto,users,rwx 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users,rw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
You can put a lot of partitions on a disk. However, I have very little faith in Partition Magic.....