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wLee

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From: Amsterdam, NL

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 33

[SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

I want to install Arch on an Eee pc 900 (std Xandros) but backed out at the partioning part of the installation.
After choosing manually partition, Cfdisk finds the 4GB sda and 16GB sdb.
I want one 20GB part with everything in there.
Is there an idiotproof answer on how to do that?

If anyone can help I would be very grateful!

Last edited by wLee (2008-12-10 14:36:07)

szymon_g

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

well... you can try a LVM2 partition(ing)...
but, may i ask: why do you want to have everything on one partition? put /home on 16gb, and / on 4 - it should be enough. eventually- put /usr/bin on 4gb and others on 16gb...

wLee

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From: Amsterdam, NL

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

I thought having everything installed on 1 part makes an easier install.
And if I do it the two parts way you suggest, what do I have to do (or don't) in CFdisk  during the installation??
And about LVM2, I think that it would complicate things for me.
I'm a real newbie you see

But: thanks a lot!

szymon_g

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

having everything on one partition doesnt really simplify anything... sometimes its even worse (e.g. when you want try different distro on it- you will loose your /home /unless you have made a backup/)
anyway, your welcome :>

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eh, i'd forgot- during installation you can choose where to mount disks... let see: if your 4gb 'harddisk' is seen as /dev/sda and 16 as /dev/sdb - you have to choose (when you will install it)- that /dev/sda have to be mounted under /usr - and than choose /dev/sdb to be mounted as / (or you can mount /dev/sda as / and /dev/sdb as /home).
you shouldnt have any problem with that. thats really simple (just read beginners guide to arch http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide )

Last edited by szymon_g (2008-12-06 17:41:08)

wLee

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From: Amsterdam, NL

Registered: 2008-12-06

Posts: 33

Re: [SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

I think it's solved, so for any other Archlinux beginners, here's what I did.
I deleted all the existing partitions (sda1-2-3-4 and sdb1) and created 2 new ones (sda1 and sdb1) and changed the filetype for both partions to 83 (Linux).
(If you're installing from USBpendrive, you will also see a sdc1, I didn't touch it.)
Sda1 became 4GB and got named [SYSTEM] and sb1 is 16GB and got the name [HOME].
This name thing was done automatically, which is fine with me.

After this I continued to follow http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners_Guide to finish the installation.

kjon

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From: Temuco, Chile

Registered: 2008-04-16

Posts: 398

Re: [SOLVED] Partition question Eee pc 900

a big fat note!

4 gb ssd and 6 gb ssd's speeds aren't the same. Doing a lvm combining both will result in a very significant performance loss !

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