> 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, d
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
> unde
On Sun, Jul 26 2015, Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-26 14:55 GMT-06:00 Alan McKinnon :
>>
>> 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.
>
2015-07-26 14:55 GMT-06:00 Alan McKinnon :
>
> 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 anyway, of course I
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 i
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 :
>> > 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
On 26/07/2015 18:06, Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman :
>
>> 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
* Jc García [150726 12:06]:
> 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman :
>
> > 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
>
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 di
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 di
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 pa
On Sunday 26 Jul 2015 17:06:11 Jc García wrote:
> 2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman :
> > 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
Bruce Schultz gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Matthew Marchese 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 multi-faceted so that many differen
Hans 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 together, as a basi
2015-07-26 9:33 GMT-06:00 Todd Goodman :
> 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.
>
The contrar
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 p
* Jc García [150726 11:28]:
> 2015-07-26 8:38 GMT-06:00 :
> >
> > 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, Vi
2015-07-26 8:38 GMT-06:00 :
>
> 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 get a
VM, r
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
cur
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 b
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 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 chainl
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
/dev/vg7/opt/optext4relatime,discard
1 2
/dev/vg7/atom /mnt/atom ext4relatime,discard
1 2
/dev/vg7/atomresc /mnt/atomresc ext4relatime,discard
1 2
/dev/vg7/tpad /mnt/tpad
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 ev
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 partiti
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 i
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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