Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-26 Thread Eric Martin
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 formatting

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
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:

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread b.n.
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

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- 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

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Philip Webb
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 wb useful

Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved)

2007-10-20 Thread Florian Philipp
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