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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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>> 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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>> So I poised this question on gentoo-doc |
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>> and got this encouraging response from *JOSH* |
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>> snip |
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>> James |
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> Given that some folks on here have ran into USB drives changing the order of |
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> partitions, I think this is a good idea. If needed, they could at least |
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> introduce the subject then have it link to another page. Even if it is the |
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> simplest label of using boot, root and such labels and maybe a mention that |
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> there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. |
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> I ran into this issue a while back when I added a hard drive and it was not |
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> easy to work with. When I boot a CD/DVD, it sees them as hd* instead of sd* |
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> so that didn't help since the OS kernel sees them as sd*. |
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> It may be uphill to get this included or at least linked to something else |
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> explaining it but I think it is a good idea. I also added myself to the bug |
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> as well. I saw the post on -doc. |
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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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- Mark |
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