Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:34:23 +0100, Stroller wrote: Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these adaptor cables are very useful

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-20 Thread Albert Hopkins
Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these adaptor cables are very useful indeed. The link above prices them at $17 - a price

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Jul 2007, at 13:04, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... Enclosures are great when you want to keep a drive in there. But in the case that you want to - say - pull the hard-drive out of your laptop and plug it into a desktop PC for just a few minutes these adaptor cables are very useful indeed. The

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Julian Simioni spectre256 at gmail.com writes: Depending on what software you need to run, running Windows in VMware can work quite well. VMware is not an option. We use the laptops for embedded systems development. Most Semiconductor companies still require you use Windows for their

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: 1. Boot with a live cd (or better yet RIPLinux on a USB stick). RIP Linux looks very cool. No experience with this but, hey I'm going to try and use this... I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: [...] I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that with Vista the boot.ini file is gone. I'm not sure that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Donnerstag 19 Juli 2007 21:01 schrieb Albert Hopkins: On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 17:58 +, James wrote: Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: [...] I'm not sure if Vista versus XP make any difference. In a recent post on this list about grub one reader posted about the fact that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:29 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, actually we are using both (chainloading ntldr by grub) and if you are changing the partition scheme, you might need to work with it. Sorry I was confused. [...] Sorry when I said boot via liveCD I wasn't specifically

[gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread James
Albert Hopkins marduk at gentoo.org writes: I've been using RIPLinux for 3 years and haven't had any issues with it. Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 21:45 +, James wrote: Ok Albert, I'm convinced. I'm going to give your suggestions a whirl. One cautious step I'm adding as suggested, is to back up the virgin drive with DD. I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Sony Viao Vista and Gentoo

2007-07-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Jul 2007, at 23:22, Albert Hopkins wrote: ... I'm looking for a cable so that I can copy the sony drive onto a gentoo partition of another system via a usb 2.0 to ata/eide cable. It was suggested this cable: ttp://tinyurl.com/ynhszy [sic] But being in Florida... These are really easy