> [snip] >>> I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's >>> working now. The install is about done but there were a few >>> peculiarities: >>> >>> 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I >>> deleted all partitions. >>> >> >> That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expects >> the first partition to start at sector 2048. >> >> You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this should >> let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. >> >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64, >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that the >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > > Got it, I'll just stick with 2048. > >>> 2. grub-install reported something like: >>> >>> fd0 >>> hd0 >>> hd1 >>> >>> where hd1 was the USB key. Should I fix this to remove the USB key from >>> grub? >>> >> >> I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so grub >> shouldn't have any trouble booting. > > Sounds good. > >>> 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. I think it has to >>> do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and >>> extracting an initial snapshot. >>> >> >> Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, and >> extract it into a re-created /usr/portage > > I tried that but I get the same message: > > "WARNING: One of more repositories have been ignored due to duplicate > profiles/repo_name entires: > > /, gentoo, /usr/local/portage overrides > /usr/portage > > All profiles/repo_name entries must be unique in order to avoid having > duplicates ignored. Set PORTAGE_REPO_DUPLICATE_WARN="0" in > /etc/make.conf if you would like to disable this warning." > > - Grant
Just figured it out. I had a duplicate tree in /usr/local/portage which I just deleted. I had to re-set my profile with eselect. Please let me know if there's anything else I might have to re-do. - Grant
