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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty
Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:23:56
Message-Id: 4EB708B1.2040904@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:21:33 -0600, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >>> Odd thing. I never noticed they were symlinks. A simple `sudo cp ...`
5 >>> does the right thing here. Did you use `cp -a`, maybe through an
6 >>> alias?
7 >> I do use -av out of habit. That habit started when I was copying
8 >> installs from one drive to another. I don't think I have any aliases
9 >> anymore. It would be good if I just copied the right thing. :/
10 > Or you could use make install and remove the possibility for screw-ups.
11 > After all, you trust make to build and kernel, then build and copy the
12 > entire module tree. Surely you can manage to trust it with one more
13 > file :-O
14 >
15 >
16
17 I did use it once but I didn't like the way it did it. That could have
18 changed since then tho. I'm also bad to keep several versions of older
19 kernels around too. I have had over a dozen on /boot before. That's why
20 my /boot is a 200 Mbs or so. Sort of like this:
21
22 Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
23 /dev/sda1 186663 26457 150569 15% /boot
24
25 If we carry this to far, I'll being using Linux from Scratch. ;-)
26
27 Dale
28
29 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>