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 1PnAsH-0004Cr-04 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 14:18:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30B021C064; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:16:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gy0-f181.google.com (mail-gy0-f181.google.com [209.85.160.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0267E1C064 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:16:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gyh3 with SMTP id 3so110541gyh.40 for ; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:16:36 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=UpqdVtqYuSiqJpW1ldzapN/fJIzQmbMXeRU2cVTlWRU=; b=MuArqbB5ZWWZJdfvLr5HP7TDgBL1kHeLS8yFsYxTPhfxeN5IRExdTt4MhmeIeGsWUd mADPRFl16e/jC2BQ/729W682OqN2pYMuA+Wwhf9VJVsiTrdgzKAxwGjfUm4QIkluuv4y kwe+D/Riv8Tp/NzTaNQBZJauLfgSADavOHpGg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QRigk7eh4Y3+BA6r3YnWKrutcadcBJv9XbgFQG/eduDNFJX1k9yOLm5EiuXhCnieGm XjtnPgwuvSS0YWfl+jfXnWYLbQmdkYOoY5l0Ta2KZ0mM/fKZ2VWuXdbXkkRoV7ts9IHx xWNRxsJk+wJEnAS/e+U4PU4oJ0a0MR7udw/dc= Received: by 10.150.51.21 with SMTP id y21mr1675786yby.263.1297260996349; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:16:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-0-93-174.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.93.174]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v4sm183213ybe.5.2011.02.09.06.16.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 09 Feb 2011 06:16:35 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4D52A1C1.7040606@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:16:33 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20110201 Gentoo/2.0.11 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Disk Labels in Handbook References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 941f9005d332b2036ac65f3875e2736b James wrote: > Hello, > > So looking at the handbook, I was wondering > why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels > during the installation process. Dunno. > > So I poised this question on gentoo-doc > and got this encouraging response from *JOSH* > > snip > > > James > > Given that some folks on here have ran into USB drives changing the order of partitions, I think this is a good idea. If needed, they could at least introduce the subject then have it link to another page. Even if it is the simplest label of using boot, root and such labels and maybe a mention that there are other ways to accomplish the same thing. I ran into this issue a while back when I added a hard drive and it was not easy to work with. When I boot a CD/DVD, it sees them as hd* instead of sd* so that didn't help since the OS kernel sees them as sd*. It may be uphill to get this included or at least linked to something else explaining it but I think it is a good idea. I also added myself to the bug as well. I saw the post on -doc. Dale :-) :-)