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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 18:23:48
Message-Id: CAA2qdGU_4-MsFkLKuL6cpyDLNmpHH_YwL-7MPPf7LSkF4S7J6g@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook by Pandu Poluan
1 Oh iya, satu lagi yang perlu dihindari: wifi AP nya HP ProCurve / HP
2 Networking. Nggak stabil. (Tapi kalau switch Layer 2 dan Layer 3 nya, HP
3 ProCurve highly recommended).
4
5 ((Ini berdasarkan hasil pengalaman saya di kantor yang sekarang.))
6
7 Rgds,
8 On Mar 4, 2012 1:15 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
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11 > On Mar 4, 2012 1:13 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
12 > >
13 > >
14 > > On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
15 > > >
16 >
17 > > >
18 > > > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's
19 > > > working now. The install is about done but there were a few
20 > > > peculiarities:
21 > > >
22 > > > 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I
23 > > > deleted all partitions.
24 > > >
25 > >
26 > > That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7
27 > expects the first partition to start at sector 2048.
28 > >
29 > > You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this
30 > should let you start the first partition as low as sector 63.
31 > >
32 > > HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g.,
33 > 64, 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens
34 > that the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1]
35 > >
36 >
37 > [1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/
38 >
39 > Rgds,
40 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>