From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MKKRr-0005Wy-1u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:03:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5101E0538; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863FAE0538 for ; Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:03:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBC362FFFD7 for ; Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:03:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:02:53 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Seek advice: converting Sabayon to Gentoo ? Message-ID: <20090627000253.553d5b28@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890906261550j269bfec2nf08645b4b2839d72@mail.gmail.com> References: <7bef1f890906260637u1cc88913k714618744a26401d@mail.gmail.com> <20090626142623.GA4769@ca.inter.net> <7bef1f890906260823gdae8dcv87efa3a070217f67@mail.gmail.com> <4A4528B0.6050407@coolmail.se> <7bef1f890906261550j269bfec2nf08645b4b2839d72@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs78 (GTK+ 2.16.1; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/=c5urjbA8.ja+oPpAT62Iwl"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 13fd84d6-458d-434c-bb63-5560675cfb2b X-Archives-Hash: e2cdb41b71000f04dac9d50b4e68d82f --Sig_/=c5urjbA8.ja+oPpAT62Iwl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:50:15 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: > I didn't say anything about my hardware. The main hiccough, installing > gentoo, has been the ath5k module, which was at one time, I think, > ath_pci. Newer kernels may support this out of the box, in a gentoo > install. Beside that, dual monitors are working with the nvidia > drivers. Ath5k works reasonably well, I've bee using it on this Eee Pc for a while. > Another problem, a MAJOR problem, has been a recent marriage of pata and > sata drives, all as scsi, /dev/sdX. With Gentoo, say a year or so ago, > I had no problem with mixing four drives, two sata and two pata. Ubuntu > wasn't able to differentiate, and even on a recent install I was forced > to edit grub.conf (or grub.lst) before the system could boot off the > right drive. Former /dev/hda became /dev/sda1, and former /dev/sda1 was > recognized as /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda3. UUID numbers were confusing and I > then blamed Ubuntu for moving ahead too quickly. I lost a bunch of > archived material due to that issue. More recently, I see that Sabayon > is also using UUID numbers in fstab. Still, I am now reluctant every > time I try to upgrade or install. UUIDs are good for automated installers as they provide a level of independence of device numbers. For manual install like Gentoo, you are better off using filesystem labels. You can make sure they are unique and they make fstab a lot easier to read. --=20 Neil Bothwick Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate. --Sig_/=c5urjbA8.ja+oPpAT62Iwl Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpFU6MACgkQum4al0N1GQPLvQCfRWzIKAuiJX8m52lnf9QsBg18 KA8AoJYmpEGjKmDVFrCYpRdRodfTZl0u =B1yI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/=c5urjbA8.ja+oPpAT62Iwl--