From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IjAdg-0004tb-Pu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:29:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9K9GJg8029848; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:16:19 GMT Received: from aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (aa011msr.fastwebnet.it [85.18.95.71]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9K99iFR021103 for ; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:09:44 GMT Received: from [37.1.3.90] (37.1.3.90) by aa011msr.fastwebnet.it (7.3.118.6) (authenticated as cyclopia) id 46A4976D050D9A2B for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:09:44 +0200 Message-ID: <4719C922.6040407@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 11:23:46 +0200 From: "b.n." User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070807) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] new box: 2 small puzzles (1 solved) References: <20071019183538.GA4639@sympatico.ca> <200710192108.58247.peter.alfredsen@gmail.com> <20071020085125.GB4637@sympatico.ca> In-Reply-To: <20071020085125.GB4637@sympatico.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 90af075b-fe65-4594-be16-0f4fb65bdcb1 X-Archives-Hash: 4c1dc652868c54266e92e2ad825a7a46 Philip Webb ha scritto: > 071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote: >> On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote: >>> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE', >>> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD >>> as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it: >>> should I change the mobo setting (the HDD is SATA) ? >> If it has a setting "Configure SATA as AHCI", try that. >> AHCI is a generic-ish interface that should improve compatibility. > > Yes, that did the trick ! Thanks. > > Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs > takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ? > It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files. > It won't affect today's installation job, > but wb useful for the future, if there's some way of avoiding it. I've seen similar effects on my fat32 USB sticks. What filesystem do you use on them? m. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list