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Whoaa, it seems you are right, Henry, according to the |
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specs<http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&tmp_geoLoc=true&docname=c03769023#N1192>on |
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HP site this case really DOES have only one bay. It seems the |
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technician |
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was lying :(. Is there any chance of returning the PC for full refund as it |
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wasn't delivered per requested specs? |
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As for the Grub prublem, I thing you will not need any MBR boot loader. As |
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the computer is preinstalled with Windows 8, my bets are on UEFI firmware |
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in your motherboard which means your HDD should be in GPT format (no |
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old-fashioned MBR with all the gotchas). Booting UEFI might seem more |
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laborous for a novice, but if you read a few articles you will find it to |
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be way more reliable boot method than MBR/Grub. In fact, the only thing you |
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need to do is to build your gentoo kernel with EFI_STUB and few other |
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options, put your kernel bzImage on some fat32 partition and add a boot |
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entry into your UEFI(=bios). Most UEFIs are capable to work as boot |
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managers and boot loaders and they will do the Grub's work. |
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http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/UEFI_Gentoo_Quick_Install_Guide |
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Regards, |
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Peter |
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2013/8/28 Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Henry W. Peters <hwpeters@××××××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > On 8/28/2013 3:46 PM, czernitko wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >> Hi, it seems improbable that your desktop PC would have only one HDD |
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> slot. |
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> >> Could you post your exact model number please? :) |
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> >> To give you some hope, I have had Linux installed on external hdd for |
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> >> daily use for about two years. It is at least five years back, it was |
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> over |
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> >> USB 2.0 and worked quite well. I did some photo editing and retouching |
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> and |
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> >> it was ok. |
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> >> How big is your internal drive anyway? Isn't it possible to use around |
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> >> 30GB for Gentoo system partition? Or do you just want to keep original |
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> hdd |
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> >> intact? |
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> >> Regards, |
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> >> Peter |
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> >> |
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> >> Hi, |
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> >> If you really need a new drive (i.e. - the one that came with your |
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> >> machine is just too small, etc.) then I'd look at imaging the drive |
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> >> that's currently installed, putting in a larger drive, partitioning |
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> >> this larger drive to hold both Gentoo and what ever M$ OS you might be |
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> >> using, and then just work to get both OS's working but keep the |
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> >> current drive on the shelf as a backup. This way you could always go |
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> >> back to what you have. |
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> >> |
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> >> Just an idea. |
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> >> |
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> >> Good luck, |
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> >> Mark |
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> >> To the point of the original poster: I currently use a Lenovo W520 |
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> laptop. |
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> >> I have a USB3 external hard drive that I mostly use for backup, but I |
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> have |
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> >> occasionally edited some audio (small audio files using Audacity) |
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> directly |
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> >> on the external drive. Again, it's not the OS drive, so temp files and |
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> >> such |
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> >> are most likely stored on the internal drive, but I know that Audacity |
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> >> operates in the directory in which the project is located, so it's still |
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> >> doing a fair bit of I/O to that external drive. |
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> >> |
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> >> Hope this helps! |
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> >> |
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> >> ~David |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Thanks all for helpful suggestions! |
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> > |
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> > First off, capacity of current internal drive is not really an issue with |
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> > me... it is 2 TB... I tried installing Gentoo on another (very much older |
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> > computer) a while ago & had problems installing Grub, with Gentoo, as I |
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> was |
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> > dual booting with windows (not to mention conflicts with xstart & my old |
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> > integrated SIS graphics card)... so my thinking is to install Gentoo on a |
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> > whole other HD... which seemed to work out on my old computer (or |
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> perhaps it |
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> > was simpler to do for a Gentoo novice, like myself). |
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> > |
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> > & Peter, I'm with you... I have not seen a desktop computer that didn't |
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> have |
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> > at least one expansion bay (not that I've seen that many)... but |
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> apparently |
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> > this HP Pavillion 500-046 does not. & I really had to dig to find out |
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> (the |
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> > hard way). |
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> > |
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> > Good to hear that some have had some measure of success with external |
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> drives |
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> > & Gentoo, rather sounds like I'll just have to try it... |
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> > |
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> > I have done a little more research since my earlier post, & I see that |
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> LaCie |
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> > (& possibly others) make/sell an external drive that has usb 2 & |
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> 3/firewire |
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> > 400 & 800/eSata (& there are, it seems, some extra Sata slots on the |
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> mother |
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> > board of this HP computer). |
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> > |
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> > My plan, in fact, after a installation of Gentoo... would be to shrink |
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> the 2 |
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> > TB partition that is currently formatted in NTS... (Windows 8), use the |
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> > other partition formatted in ext 4 (i.e., Linux) data storage. |
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> > |
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> > Henry |
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> > (who's trying hard to get away from windows, again (been using various |
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> > flavors of Linux for about five years) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> |
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> Henry, |
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> A couple of points: |
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> 1) Not all computers will boot from an external USB drive. If you have |
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> one around you can maybe do some experiments before you invest a lot |
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> of time and find yourself stymied. |
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> 2) grub is not a requirement to boot Gentoo. There are links out there |
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> demonstrating how to modify the Windows boot config files to allow you |
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> to boot other OS's. I don't do it myself so I don't know what the |
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> state of the Win 8 boot loader is in that respect, but there were ways |
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> to do this with Win NT. If it's of interest then check it out. |
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> Good luck, |
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> Mark |
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