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

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

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