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Hey all,

I'm trying to install Gentoo and there is a couple things I need to know. First off, how do I dual boot? And second off, after I burn the image (ISO) to the CD and pop it in and reset my computer it just goes into windows again. Can anyone point me in the right direction on how to install this? Thanks.

you need nero to burn a bootable CD rom.

there is 97 pages of instalation instructions so Gentoo isnt a good idea.

Wehn you initialize grub in the /boot/grub/grub.conf after you have mounted and chrooted onto the /bin/bash you need to make sure you use

/dev/cdrom instead of /mnt/cdrom ect.

gentoo is not for begginners, I reccommend Fedora if this is your first time.

Just remember that you need burn from ISO, not just put the file on there.

If you wanna still go at it be my guest but it was a pain in the arse for me to install gentoo.

I dual boot gentoo and XP but until your at the stage in the installation AFTER compiling the kernel and/or emerging genkernel (if you dont want to compile manually) you set up your grub loader configuration file

just remember grub starts counting hard drives at 0

so me having a sata drive my /dev/sda1 (actually is my windows partition) is to grub (hda 0,0)

the first number is device number, the second is for partitions.

also you need to have a 512 MB swap space and an 80KB or so boot partition.

Swap is a Linux Swap/Solaris and its number 82 in the config file

the boot drive needs to be an EXT2 and the leftover probably partition 4 since you have windows, needs to be an EXT3.

if you have no idea about what I'm saying, installing gentoo will be for one pointless and inefficient, and two hard as hell.

Why do you need to work in a linux environment?

You can dual boot to windows by editing the bootloader configuration file. If you used GRUB, then the configuration file is in /boot/grub/grub.conf. Say that Windows is in the first hard drive, the configuration file would end with something like:

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Note that the important part that may change is the (hd0,0) part. If its the second drive, it would be (hd1,0).


As for booting, you need to tell your BIOS to boot from the CD. This can be changed by editing the BIOS configuration (press DEL at startup). Then make the first boot device the CDROM drive. An alternative method is, if your motherboard has this option, to change the current boot device. On my computer, you press F9 when you see the boot logo, and choose the CDRom drive. It's probably not F9 for you, though (unless you have a Biostar motherboard).

Crunch it!

hehe good luck

Use the guide and dont look down. If you have any trouble post here, and also there forums are excellent.

You sound like a noob with Linux, hopefully you don't eat up your Windows partition and lose everything. Good luck!

Lol, funny you say that. It got pretty damn close to it. I got scared when it said "mounting." The whole reason I wanted to install Gentoo was becase I thought I needed that to install navynos. Well I didn't, and it also turns out navynos's documentation sucks as much wind as I do after jogging a mile. So I said forget that crap and am not out to look for another Linux platform.

Whats the best distro with the most "security" features, if you know what I mean. Hope that doesn't break AUP.

uuh like i said, if you dont know what a Chroot or a mount is go with Fedora core 5 from redhat.org

www.redhat.org

great stuff. have fun with dirvers