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 1SCetg-0008Vk-J5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:29:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 20B03E09CA; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 123A7E091C for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:28:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ggni4 with SMTP id i4so414373ggn.40 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:28:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=+UdfXRijrCE8s8ryV59oGqzYsSQGL6lFm3B7l+jDqCM=; b=p4WLf4P50sf4dl/rWBK4K6ma2py+nwLHCc8q/v55Uja/ekKXoVRbRS94Kigf29o77U WDhIh0LCScchPWJPlyNrK4GFIzqT9SUDMH5hs0ffCvAATnU2r949IVj0xTR1iH3qQqlo aISUg8FY7Cg1GWUs0Nb8yLyB2K8VqYoV0ecUTpEK/3ON4DzFODPlcv/yHtiafNIq42Xp J+pVtfynAOEdw6nhDob2bNLwpi28x4AOjnQpeUujWMYIb3kJEDtwdMQTQpCSp2pctgK5 ehWr6LrWNnlR5mQvgrnFez5jxKVyjGU5UPf/Y1DzJPEKNeWLreLVVDNUG+EcPQQdgsKx AEJA== Received: by 10.236.185.42 with SMTP id t30mr27254466yhm.105.1332887300553; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:28:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-214-242.jan.bellsouth.net. [98.95.214.242]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e8sm2875753yhk.0.2012.03.27.15.28.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:28:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F723F01.4040904@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:28:17 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120325 Firefox/11.0 SeaMonkey/2.8 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] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought References: <1332844604.4130.0@numa-i> <4F71BE44.3080206@kutulu.org> <01de01cd0c26$98088c40$c819a4c0$@kutulu.org> <4F71E12F.7060108@gmail.com> <000901cd0c40$0a137520$1e3a5f60$@kutulu.org> <4F720751.3020900@gmail.com> <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> <20120327235215.7834f4c7@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120327235215.7834f4c7@khamul.example.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d87134fc-d537-49fd-bd5e-f4d8da59a046 X-Archives-Hash: cd1345d280c1c971436a9121f6270b5d Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:43:38 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> Mark Knecht wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>>> I like, even love, Gentoo. Thing is, if it gets to where it >>>> doesn't work like it should for me, there's no point in me using >>>> it. If I wanted a OS that doesn't work well for me, I'd be buying >>>> M$'s crap. Hey, it does install fairly fast but it is pretty >>>> crappy. LOL >>>> >>> >>> What? Me worry? >>> >>> Chill Dale. The Gentoo devs will get it there. >>> >>> And what will you do if Ubuntu doesn't boot? Learn another distro? >>> Nahh... ;-) >>> >>> - Mark >>> >>> >> >> >> That's why I want something that I can install fast. Gentoo certainly >> isn't the right choice for that. If Kubuntu fails, I can just >> reinstall and not format /home. It doesn't take to long and I'll be >> back up and running. I already keep a fairly up to date sysrescue so >> having something for some other distro wouldn't be a huge issue. > > See this mountain peak you think you see in front of you? The one you > call Everest? > > You got it wrong about that mountain Dale. It's a little mole hill in > the back yard. > > Make / big enough to contain /usr as well. Move stuff over and delete > the /usr partition. > > Everything you fear about udev instantly ceases to exist and is no > longer a problem. Sorted. > > But what about using LVM? People was all for me using it a while back and I want to use it, see other post, but now because of this, I'm not supposed to. Look left, look right, look left, look right. Get the idea? ROFL Dale :-) :-)