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How about adding a small section for installation of a software RAID |
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system. It would be nice to show a brief overview of how to get this |
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working... |
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Michael Lang wrote: |
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> At 01:19 PM 3/15/2002 -0600, you wrote: |
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>> 1. In either the "/etc/localtime" or the "/etc/rc.conf" section add a |
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>> note about setting "localtime" or "UTC", I thought that most people |
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>> use localtime, so maybe it should be default in /etc/rc.conf(which is |
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>> unrelated to this of course). |
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> What's the verdict on this one? I think I put localtime, thinking UTC |
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> might mess up my dual booting back to Windoze, but not sure. |
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>> 2. In the "Final Configuration" section you didn't mention lilo in |
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>> summary since you added it; also, in the "lilo" section it almost |
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>> seems like that is the next step, maybe show that you can do lilo or |
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>> grub, user following down the list might not realise or may do both. |
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> Good points here. Turned this into a Bootloader chapter with overview. |
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>> 3. Link or more info on USE flags would be awesome. |
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> I'm not really qualified to write about the USE flags. Anybody want |
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> to provide me with a paragraph or two? Or if there's a url somewhere |
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> covering this, please point me there. |
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>> 4. In the "Setting up partitions" section, note about ext2/3 being |
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>> resizeable, xfs growth but not shrink, etc. would be helpful. I |
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>> realize you have a link to in-depth discusion about filesystems, but |
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>> I don't think this was discussed in those articles either. Also a |
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>> not about parted and/or fips and other tools to modify partitions. |
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> Again, I'm not really qualified to write this up. If there's any |
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> volunteers or someone can point me to some good docs, I'll be glad to |
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> add info to docs...however, I'm not sure we want to put *every* sort |
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> of detail into the install docs as this tends to clutter it a good bit. |
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> I tried to clean up a lot of this clutter..while I have definitely |
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> trimmed a lot of fluff out, I don't think I've deleted any actual |
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> information, yet. A lot of things got pushed to the top into the |
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> Overview chapter and then where ever I spotted the info being |
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> rehashed, I zapped it. |
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> One thing I'm curious about is the Important Note about being at |
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> FOSDEM...is this a note affecting the vast majority of installers |
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> (i.e. something that should definitely be left in), or is this a |
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> highly targeted notes to Gentoo developers or from earlier Gentoo days? |
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>> 5. Booting section, maybe make link to 3 separate pages, rather than |
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>> all in one, same with lilo and grub install section. |
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> I thought about doing this as well, but figured people might want to |
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> be printing the guide out because they are potentially going to be |
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> offline for a while while bringing new system on-line. Any others |
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> with feedback? |
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> I have been re-drafting as ideas come in. Please check out latest |
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> revisions at: |
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> http://www.gibberishcode.net/gentoo-web/xsl/build.html |
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> Michael |
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> President |
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> "All things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler" -- Albert |
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> Einstein |
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