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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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>>> |
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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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>>> |
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>> |
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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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>> |
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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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>> |
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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 the |
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>> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] |
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> Got it, I'll just stick with 2048. |
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>>> 2. grub-install reported something like: |
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>>> |
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>>> fd0 |
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>>> hd0 |
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>>> hd1 |
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>>> |
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>>> where hd1 was the USB key. Should I fix this to remove the USB key from |
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>>> grub? |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so grub |
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>> shouldn't have any trouble booting. |
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> Sounds good. |
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>>> 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. I think it has to |
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>>> do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and |
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>>> extracting an initial snapshot. |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, and |
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>> extract it into a re-created /usr/portage |
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> I tried that but I get the same message: |
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> "WARNING: One of more repositories have been ignored due to duplicate |
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> profiles/repo_name entires: |
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> |
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> /, gentoo, /usr/local/portage overrides |
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> /usr/portage |
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> |
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> All profiles/repo_name entries must be unique in order to avoid having |
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> duplicates ignored. Set PORTAGE_REPO_DUPLICATE_WARN="0" in |
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> /etc/make.conf if you would like to disable this warning." |
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> - Grant |
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Just figured it out. I had a duplicate tree in /usr/local/portage |
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which I just deleted. I had to re-set my profile with eselect. |
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Please let me know if there's anything else I might have to re-do. |
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- Grant |
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