Philip Webb ha scritto: > 071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: >> On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: >>> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', >>> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD >>> as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: >>> should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? >> If it has a setting "Configure SATA as AHCI", try that. >> AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. > > Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. > > Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs > takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? > It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. > It won't affect today's installation job, > but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it.
I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
