On Sat, Jul 25 2015, Mick wrote:
On Saturday 25 Jul 2015 16:32:19 Daniel Frey wrote:
Is Windows writing a hybrid partition table? Maybe use something like
parted to check.
Dan
MSwindows these days installs a separate boot partition. The MSWindows boot
manager can be chainloaded from
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 13:39:13 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
When you said a new install, I assumed it was a newer computer, but if
you don't have UEFI and want Windows you are apparently stuck with
MBR.
Neil, I don't know why you make such a fuss about MBR. I've been using
it ever since
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:09:57 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
PS I checked and the gentoo installation guide says that gpt without
uefi prevents dual booting windows.
So the answer to the question of why are you using a 1980s partition
table is that
On Sat, Jul 25 2015, Mick wrote:
I'm afraid you're right:
Can Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows Server 2008 read, write, and boot
from GPT disks?
Yes, all versions can use GPT partitioned disks for data. Booting is only
supported for 64-bit editions on UEFI-based systems.
On Sunday 26 July 2015 11:15:03 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:09:57 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
PS I checked and the gentoo installation guide says that gpt without
uefi prevents dual booting windows.
So the answer to the question of why are you using a 1980s partition
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 08:23:22 -0600, Jc García wrote:
* I clicked send before I was finished editing.
Good thing it was only an email and not a graphical installer ;-)
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It's no use crying over spilt milk -- it only makes it salty for the cat.
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On 07/26/2015 07:35 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25 2015, Mick wrote:
On Saturday 25 Jul 2015 16:32:19 Daniel Frey wrote:
Is Windows writing a hybrid partition table? Maybe use something like
parted to check.
Dan
MSwindows these days installs a separate boot partition. The
On Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:09:57 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
PS I checked and the gentoo installation guide says that gpt without
uefi prevents dual booting windows.
So the answer to the question of why are you using a 1980s partition
table is that you want to use a 1990s operating system on
On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote:
From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very interesting.
However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I think
I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick) code that
LikeWhoa put together, as a basis for the effort. I'd be most
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2015-07-26 8:38 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
My son wanted me to do that. I didn't because
Something else to learn (I don't run a vm).
I didn't want to face dell support with linux and xen underneath the
supported windows.
That's an exaggeration, VirtualBox is just a few clicks and you
wabenbau at gmail.com writes:
I used to install and look after OpenSuse Desk and Laptops until
systemd showed it's ugly face. Now I install and look after several
Gentoo Xfce desktops and 3 OpenSuse Xfce Laptops. I use a Cut Paste
script to install Gentoo on Desktops. The only manual
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 17:06:11 Jc García wrote:
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net:
I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
OS' on bare
* Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com [150726 11:28]:
2015-07-26 8:38 GMT-06:00 gottl...@nyu.edu:
My son wanted me to do that. I didn't because
Something else to learn (I don't run a vm).
I didn't want to face dell support with linux and xen underneath the
supported windows.
That's
Hans li...@interworld.net.au wrote:
On 18/07/15 03:25, James wrote:
From [1] we have Project:Installer [2] which looks very
interesting. However, If I were to create a new gentoo installer, I
think I'd leverage ansible and the persistence mode (usb stick)
code that LikeWhoa put
Bruce Schultz brulzki at gmail.com writes:
Matthew Marchese maffblas...@gentoo.org writes:
I see that you've found stager. I'd like you to share
your thoughts on what a perfect installer Gentoo could do.
A successful gentoo installer will:
Be
On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 17:06:11 Jc García wrote:
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net:
I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't
On 26/07/2015 18:06, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net:
I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't know how well
2015-07-26 14:55 GMT-06:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com:
Is that Alan as in me?
No, I should have written Allan, I didn't notice the 'll' also as he
was the original poster and I didn't see any post from others with
same name I omitted the last name.
Interesting experience you share
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Mick wrote:
On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 15:35:15 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
The system came with windows 7 on the whole disk 500GB. To shrink it to
50 takes work as there are unmovable files in the middle (the are
there since you must actually moved them). Anyway I didn't try
* Jc García jyo.gar...@gmail.com [150726 12:06]:
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net:
I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Todd Goodman wrote:
In the times I've had to deal with support it's usually about doing what
they ask so they finally believe that it's a hardware problem and will
generate the needed RMA # to get replacements. Sometimes that's running
Dell Diagnostics and sometimes it's
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net:
I like and use VirtualBox a lot (and agree it's easy to use.)
But the performance and USB handling mean that I need Windows or other
OS' on bare metal most of the time. I don't know how well Dell's crap^W
support stuff runs in a VM.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 15:14:46 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Actually I did have a bit of a fling with btrfs at that time, but I
couldn't understand what the docs were telling me. I must have had a
comprehension gap or something, but in the end I just went back to what
I knew and reinstalled
On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 10:16:45 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
When you said a new install, I assumed it was a newer computer, but if
you don't have UEFI and want Windows you are apparently stuck with
MBR.
It does have UEFI and perhaps I should have learned how to use it. I
understand
N one is forcing you (unless you have a UEFI board), and more than anyone
is telling you not to use a 2.4 series kernel.
Neil Bothwick
This brings a question to mind: Does anybody know what Linux kernel was the
first to support GPT?
Slackware 13.0, released in 2009 with kernel 2.6.29.6, did
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Jc García wrote:
2015-07-26 14:55 GMT-06:00 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com:
Is that Alan as in me?
No, I should have written Allan, I didn't notice the 'll' also as he
was the original poster and I didn't see any post from others with
same name I omitted the
On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 15:35:15 gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
The system came with windows 7 on the whole disk 500GB. To shrink it to
50 takes work as there are unmovable files in the middle (the are
there since you must actually moved them). Anyway I didn't try but
simply removed the big
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Daniel Frey wrote:
On 07/26/2015 07:35 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
The system came with windows 7 on the whole disk 500GB. To shrink it to
50 takes work as there are unmovable files in the middle (the are
there since you must actually moved them). Anyway I didn't try
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