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On Mar 4, 2012 1:13 AM, "Pandu Poluan" <pandu@××××××.info> wrote: |
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> On Mar 4, 2012 12:54 AM, "Grant" <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's |
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> > working now. The install is about done but there were a few |
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> > peculiarities: |
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> > 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I |
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> > deleted all partitions. |
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> That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects |
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the first partition to start at sector 2048. |
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> You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should |
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let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. |
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> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, |
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72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that |
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the hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] |
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[1] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-4kb-sector-disks/ |
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Rgds, |