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Having been (mostly happily) using Ubuntu for a number of months I |
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yearn to install Gentoo again. Tried a beta release of Gentoo 2008.0, |
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and was pleased, at least to be able to boot and not have the |
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confusion about naming HDDs, and using Grub was simpler. Now, as I |
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approach the Live CD installer (AMD64) some problems are keeping me at |
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bay. |
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Now, however, I've tried three or four times to install on an existing |
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partition. Grub will not install over the ubuntu grub, or else |
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something else is crazy. After a 2 hour preparation the last time |
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around, emerging the extra packages, the system just stopped, and when |
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at long last I finally rebooted, it was back to Ubuntu. |
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May I ask a few questions? |
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- Live CD only installs over a clean partition. How can I resume |
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an installation? |
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- I only have a unsupported atheros wifi card for connection. I've |
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been using it for years. No easy way to connect by wire. Any ideas? |
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- I have an 80GB fast SATA drive and three slower 7000 RPM drives. |
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What partitions are best kept on the fast drive to maximize |
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performance (I have basically an all purpose workstation). My /home |
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will be about 100GB: is it wiser to split it up into a smaller core |
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/home with several slower archive and storage partitions (Library, |
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Project archives, Videos, Music)? |
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- Advice about UUIDs? I lost a partition (a large one) over a |
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misidentification of a partition when the Ubuntu scheme started |
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swapping around names of devices. Old /dev/hda became /dev/sda and |
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old /dev/sda became /dev/sdb. What a mess that turned out to be. |
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For now this will be enough. |
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Alan |
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