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My new machine is working well & I'm starting to install the system. |
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So far, there are 2 things I would value advice on. |
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(1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', |
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which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD |
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as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: |
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should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? |
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(2) I've been using a 2 GB USB memory stick to transfer material |
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from my present machine to the new one. The space taken up on the stick |
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is much larger than that shown by 'df' or 'du' on either HDD : |
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is there some inefficiency in how data is written to a USB stick ? |
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is there some way of making it as efficient as an HDD ? |
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I've been using the command 'cp -a', which is slow but usually safe. |
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BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'. |
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I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net. |
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