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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:27 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Mark |
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> Knecht did opine thusly: |
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>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> > James wrote: |
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>> >> Hello, |
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>> >> |
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>> >> So looking at the handbook, I was wondering |
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>> >> why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels |
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>> >> during the installation process. Dunno. |
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>> >> |
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>> >> So I poised this question on gentoo-doc |
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>> >> and got this encouraging response from *JOSH* |
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>> >> |
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>> >> snip |
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>> >> |
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>> >> |
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>> >> James |
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>> > |
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>> > Given that some folks on here have ran into USB drives changing the order |
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>> > of partitions, I think this is a good idea. If needed, they could at |
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>> > least introduce the subject then have it link to another page. Even if |
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>> > it is the simplest label of using boot, root and such labels and maybe a |
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>> > mention that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. |
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>> > |
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>> > I ran into this issue a while back when I added a hard drive and it was |
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>> > not easy to work with. When I boot a CD/DVD, it sees them as hd* |
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>> > instead of sd* so that didn't help since the OS kernel sees them as sd*. |
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>> > |
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>> > It may be uphill to get this included or at least linked to something |
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>> > else explaining it but I think it is a good idea. I also added myself |
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>> > to the bug as well. I saw the post on -doc. |
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>> > |
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>> > Dale |
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>> Following Walt's recent thread about his experiences using grub2 I |
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>> think getting folks used to disk labels at installation time, be they |
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>> names or even better UUID's, might fit in very well with installation |
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>> instructions that cover using grub2 instead of grub as a boot loader. |
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> From a practical perspective, fs labels are easier than GUIDs, so I would |
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> recommend labels. Users can invent their own descriptive labels at install |
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> time and enter that into fstab. |
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> "LABEL=SERVER1-ROOT" is not much more effort than "/dev/sda3" |
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> GUIDs are another story. They get autogenerated, are invariably displayed on |
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> the screen along with a huge number of other GUIDs (Murphy) and one has to |
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> copy paste the damn things into vi. |
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> GUIDs are great for ubuntu where an install script does all the heavy lifting, |
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> but Gentoo, being a vastly superior operating system, has made the |
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> devastatingly astounding assumption that users are actually able to think and |
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> type. Whodathunkedit? |
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> If we expect users to type stuff, we should set it up so they type easy stuff |
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> :-) |
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> |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Hi, |
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If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use |
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:r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some additional |
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information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic. |
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Best regards |
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Petri |
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