[snip] >> I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's >> working now. The install is about done but there were a few >> peculiarities: >> >> 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I >> deleted all partitions. >> > > That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects > the first partition to start at sector 2048. > > You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should > let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. > > HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, > 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the > hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1]
Got it, I'll just stick with 2048. >> 2. grub-install reported something like: >> >> fd0 >> hd0 >> hd1 >> >> where hd1 was the USB key. Should I fix this to remove the USB key from >> grub? >> > > I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so grub > shouldn't have any trouble booting. Sounds good. >> 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. I think it has to >> do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and >> extracting an initial snapshot. >> > > Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, and > extract it into a re-created /usr/portage I tried that but I get the same message: "WARNING: One of more repositories have been ignored due to duplicate profiles/repo_name entires: /, gentoo, /usr/local/portage overrides /usr/portage All profiles/repo_name entries must be unique in order to avoid having duplicates ignored. Set PORTAGE_REPO_DUPLICATE_WARN="0" in /etc/make.conf if you would like to disable this warning." - Grant
