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On 05/14/2012 12:12 PM, James wrote: |
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> Well, |
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> I just got this new HP A8 laptop. |
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> After setting up the default windows, I modified |
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> the bios boot order to use the internal DVD. Then |
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> I inserted a 12.0 lived DVD. It put for |
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> small gentoo symbols across the top, then went |
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> blank after 3 minutes. The DVD drive was very active |
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> for about 5 minutes then silence? |
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> Any suggestions or install guides are most welcome. |
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> It's been a few years since I installed Gentoo on |
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> a laptop and lots has change. Right now, I'm downloading |
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> the 12.1 liveDVD to see if it will boot that. Both |
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> were the amd64-multilib version. The lived DVD work |
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> on other (older) 64amd machines I have..... |
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> If not then its on to to knoppix or ubuntu to |
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> see it will boot any linux distro. |
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> Years ago, when I last did a dual boot install, there |
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> was a windows method for shrinking the windows partition. |
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Amazing but true. In their help manual there is a section |
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about Disk Management, where you should see "Shrink a Basic |
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Volume". |
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> Then I repartitioned the drive and put |
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> gentoo on those new partitions. Has that approached, |
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> using grub changed? The guides I seen to be finding |
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> via google, look dated. |
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> I got a week |
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> or 2 to get the dual boot working correctly, or it |
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> goes back to Costco; so any advice is welcome. |
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For the same reason I decided to leave the factory boot block |
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alone and used the free downloadable BCDEdit utility to add |
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a second item to the Windows boot menu. Really nifty, it |
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even lets you chainload grub from there. When you install |
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grub, just remember to put its boot block on your gentoo |
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partition, not the Windows partition. |
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