Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-13 7:21 PM, walt wrote:
 AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is 
 a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after
 installing all the bug fixes and service packs

Ok, either you are joking (but the wording doesn't make that very
clear), or you are just one of those antimicrosoft idiot/trolls. If you
were joking, then obviously the latter doesn't apply to you, though you
might want to make the joke a little more evident...

A fully patched Vista/Windows7 system might require as much as 7-8+ GB,
which is, what... about .9% of a Terabyte?

I'm not saying that 8GB is not ridiculously high for a core OS install,
of course it is...



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:

  AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is 
  a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after
  installing all the bug fixes and service packs  
 
 Ok, either you are joking (but the wording doesn't make that very
 clear), or you are just one of those antimicrosoft idiot/trolls. If you
 were joking, then obviously the latter doesn't apply to you, though you
 might want to make the joke a little more evident...

Sarcasm and irony don't work if you have to explain them.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Does fuzzy logic tickle?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-14 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-05-14 8:23 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Fri, 14 May 2010 07:34:49 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote:
 AFAIK most laptops don't (yet) have 2TB disks, which is why Vista is 
 a poor choice for laptops. Vista needs most of a terabyte after
 installing all the bug fixes and service packs  

 Ok, either you are joking (but the wording doesn't make that very
 clear), or you are just one of those antimicrosoft idiot/trolls. If you
 were joking, then obviously the latter doesn't apply to you, though you
 might want to make the joke a little more evident...

 Sarcasm and irony don't work if you have to explain them.

It wasn't worded that way - as written, it was just plain dumb.



Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread Stroller


On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote:

On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote:

...
I installed a gentoo on a very recent system  (efi support) ...
I know that it is not required  an  efi partiton to boot the os with
pc/bios and gpt disk. Or is it false ?


I guarantee that some smart geek here will know how to do it, though  
you

may need to search around for the appropriate forum:

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/

BTW, why do you want to use gpt on a laptop?


I assumed it was a MacBook or a Hackintosh.

Stroller.




Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Boot gentoo with GTP Disk label

2010-05-13 Thread Mick
On Thursday 13 May 2010 22:08:44 Stroller wrote:
 On 12 May 2010, at 23:22, walt wrote:
  On 05/08/2010 07:16 AM, claude angéloz wrote:
  ...
  I installed a gentoo on a very recent system  (efi support) ...
  I know that it is not required  an  efi partiton to boot the os with
  pc/bios and gpt disk. Or is it false ?
 
  I guarantee that some smart geek here will know how to do it, though
  you
  may need to search around for the appropriate forum:
 
  http://www.boot-land.net/forums/
 
  BTW, why do you want to use gpt on a laptop?
 
 I assumed it was a MacBook or a Hackintosh.

I'm sure I've seen a Sony laptop running Vista that had an EFI boot.  I assume 
that this means it also had a GPT partition system?

-- 
Regards,
Mick


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