Help with Sabayon 10 KDE 64 bit installer [Solved]

[dirigible]

My pc has two hard drives sda and sdb.
sda is all windows xp
sdb has Mint 13 KDE on partition 2

I want to install Sabayon in the preceeding free space. When I choose the option to install to free space I'm presented with this.

The proposed space I want to use shows up as sdb3 and sdb5.
What do I do now?

[linuxfluesterer]

Hallo ...
I would suggest you to change your partition table manually, if you don't really use raid...
Before you save and write it, nothing has happened!
So create one new partition in the free space, if you want only one with mount point /.
If you want to separate into 2 devices, then create 2 partitions both with the ncessary mount point.
You may be asked for partition type, primary or extended.
But I see problems with extended, because they are not at the end of the partition table.
So, it is possible to create 2 more primary partitions, 4 in a sum on a hdd. The Swap already exists.
But the sequence I assume will be then sdb1 (new), sdb3 (new), sdb4 (old), and sdb2 (old).
Don't be confused, when you see that...
After you have created the new single partitions, you can see the new partition table, before you finally write to disk.
And .. what about a Backup of Linux Mint 13?
You can also save the old mbr from /dev/sdb with 512 bytes to a usb stick BEFORE you change the partition table,
then in emergency cas write it back to /dev/sdb as root with live cd.

-Linuxfluesterer (I love KDE ...)

[dirigible]

I prefer to have Sabayon all on 1 partition.
How's this look?

Is ext4 correct or should Ihave chosen jfs?
Not sure about the "Force to be a primary partition" option either?

Will this give me the result I want?

[linuxfluesterer]

How's this look?

It looks good for me
/dev/sdb1 is also good...

Is ext4 correct or should Ihave chosen jfs?

ext4 is a good, usual given choice, I myself prefer jfs...

Not sure about the "Force to be a primary partition" option either?

Yes, it's best to force primary (as all I know, extended can only be defined after last primary partion.
But you already have sdb2 and sdb4 in following partitions.
And sdx1 (here sdb1) is always primary...
So, in my oppinion, you can go on.
Let me know, pls...

-Linuxfluesterer (I love KDE ...)

[dirigible]

Clicked next and got an error

I had typed in “/.” (Slashdot) instead of just “/”.
Must have been thinking of the website.

This installed Sabayon to sdb1, but grub didn't get updated. After a couple of reboots no Sabayon! Booted into a live CD of Boot-Repair-Disk and ran the repair application, now there's an entry for Sabayon in the grub menu. I'm looking forward to using a rolling release distro. Everything up to date all the time. If it breaks, Mint 13 is my backup. Time to boot back into Sabayon and let it update.
Thanks for your help!

[linuxfluesterer]

Welcome to Sabayon then...
btw... KDE had just a step update to 4.9.2.

-Linuxfluesterer (I love KDE ...)