My new machine is working well & I'm starting to install the system.
So far, there are 2 things I would value advice on.
(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 th
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 settin
Philip Webb writes:
> BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'.
> I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net.
You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic
installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do
On Saturday 20 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Philip Webb writes:
> > BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'.
> > I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net.
>
> You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic
> install
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:
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 Gento
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400
Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> 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 aff
071020 b.n. wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> 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 w
Philip Webb schrieb:
071020 b.n. wrote:
Philip Webb ha scritto:
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 jo
Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem.
> I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way:
> they seem to have an existing file system on them,
> but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient.
> So are there any standard recommendations for formattin
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