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On Thu, 23 July 2015, at 7:06 pm, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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>> Why is a new installation using a 1980s partition scheme? |
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> Oh, I can answer this one. Cause lots of folks have tried the new |
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> stuff-age (grub-2, gpt, UUID_names etc etc) and have several borked |
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> installs. … |
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> If it's so easy, just post the explicit steps and quit referring to that |
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> arcane ((1980s)) handbook. |
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It worked for me, so easily that I remember none of the details. |
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I usually refer to the Gentoo x86 quick install guide as I perform an installation, probably I also looked at some more docs on my most recent one (a year or two ago), but I experienced no difficulties that caused me pause. |
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$ sudo parted /dev/sda p |
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Model: ATA Maxtor 6B200M0 (scsi) |
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Disk /dev/sda: 204GB |
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Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B |
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Partition Table: gpt |
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Disk Flags: |
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Number Start End Size File system Name Flags |
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1 1049kB 3146kB 2097kB grub bios_grub |
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2 3146kB 137MB 134MB ext2 boot msftdata |
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3 137MB 674MB 537MB linux-swap(v1) swap msftdata |
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4 674MB 40.4GB 39.7GB ext4 rootfs msftdata |
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5 40.4GB 204GB 164GB ext4 temp msftdata |
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$ eix -cI ^grub$ |
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[I] sys-boot/grub (2.02_beta2-r3(2)@20/01/15): GNU GRUB boot loader |
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$ grep -i label /etc/fstab |
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LABEL=boot /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2 |
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LABEL=rootfs / ext4 noatime 0 1 |
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LABEL=swap none swap sw 0 0 |
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You're not obliged to use anything you don't want, but you're making way too much about the difficulty of all this. |
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Stroller. |
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