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On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:50:15 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> I didn't say anything about my hardware. The main hiccough, installing |
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> gentoo, has been the ath5k module, which was at one time, I think, |
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> ath_pci. Newer kernels may support this out of the box, in a gentoo |
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> install. Beside that, dual monitors are working with the nvidia |
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> drivers. |
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Ath5k works reasonably well, I've bee using it on this Eee Pc for a while. |
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> Another problem, a MAJOR problem, has been a recent marriage of pata and |
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> sata drives, all as scsi, /dev/sdX. With Gentoo, say a year or so ago, |
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> I had no problem with mixing four drives, two sata and two pata. Ubuntu |
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> wasn't able to differentiate, and even on a recent install I was forced |
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> to edit grub.conf (or grub.lst) before the system could boot off the |
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> right drive. Former /dev/hda became /dev/sda1, and former /dev/sda1 was |
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> recognized as /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3. UUID numbers were confusing and I |
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> then blamed Ubuntu for moving ahead too quickly. I lost a bunch of |
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> archived material due to that issue. More recently, I see that Sabayon |
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> is also using UUID numbers in fstab. Still, I am now reluctant every |
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> time I try to upgrade or install. |
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UUIDs are good for automated installers as they provide a level of |
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independence of device numbers. For manual install like Gentoo, you are |
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better off using filesystem labels. You can make sure they are unique and |
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they make fstab a lot easier to read. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate. |
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