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 1S4Hif-0006bE-H7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:07:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5917CE0917; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:07:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA4DE0909 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 20:06:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekb47 with SMTP id b47so1277144eek.40 for ; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.213.14.137 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.213.14.137; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.213.14.137 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=emailgrant@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=emailgrant@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.213.14.137]) by 10.213.14.137 with SMTP id g9mr1597825eba.194.1330891602852 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/3eNa2BRHwREqF4wOB6owMWDjNnNo9306WOxzo4/Zok=; b=ed8pmgXDPlqWdPdbYlm+5YEdy59D/Bwdf9dSR94AKod2rCFHrl+zrimR6o8CpYHvOF wl/o9KRfrWZOkhouXzF+zdYgLzvs1E75ii6MHAl7R+vYDSlaGvRR1fusk9x8Nuco9wPO FjRUtXd/WivVtwM/1Iww/GoGdvI6rMqInLxKySBU36YsW+luDcbaGfTcbYgN5b3bsKTl WPjcZyuvgczhUGjOjrudPUkwTwjKVGvusSHg9LSADWdJQih/WdIYhd176w5z6crEUF7C S4tE4v8WBuoCVC3TFoNHvKWAvoX79+CRdR7PLe3yGDRu0eczCmPV8SiQyYwJE1e/PeE4 Fm/A== 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 Received: by 10.213.14.137 with SMTP id g9mr1218015eba.194.1330891602732; Sun, 04 Mar 2012 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.113.148 with HTTP; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:06:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:06:42 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e7f7ca21-933a-4ca3-9ca7-12b5a76c753c X-Archives-Hash: 8ed1c996deda4cb1007b76ee7c371e23 > [snip] >>> I enabled some more kernel options under USB Network Adapters and it's >>> working now. =A0The install is about done but there were a few >>> peculiarities: >>> >>> 1. fdisk won't let me specify a start block before 2048 even though I >>> deleted all partitions. >>> >> >> That's normal. It's a long story, but Windows Vista and Windows 7 expect= s >> the first partition to start at sector 2048. >> >> You can force a lower number by toggling "DOS compatibility"; this shoul= d >> let you start the first partition as low as sector 63. >> >> HOWEVER, make sure that all partitions begin at multiples of 8 (e.g., 64= , >> 72, 80, and so on); this will save you a lot of grief if it happens that= the >> hard disk you're using has 4KiB-sectors. [1] > > Got it, I'll just stick with 2048. > >>> 2. grub-install reported something like: >>> >>> fd0 >>> hd0 >>> hd1 >>> >>> where hd1 was the USB key. =A0Should I fix this to remove the USB key f= rom >>> grub? >>> >> >> I see no problem. The lower number is still the internal hard disk, so g= rub >> shouldn't have any trouble booting. > > Sounds good. > >>> 3. Portage complains about duplicate repositories. =A0I think it has to >>> do with the fact that I ran emerge --sync without downloading and >>> extracting an initial snapshot. >>> >> >> Try 'rm -rf /usr/portage', download (or copy) portage-latest tarball, an= d >> extract it into a re-created /usr/portage > > I tried that but I get the same message: > > "WARNING: One of more repositories have been ignored due to duplicate > profiles/repo_name entires: > > /, gentoo, /usr/local/portage overrides > /usr/portage > > All profiles/repo_name entries must be unique in order to avoid having > duplicates ignored. =A0Set PORTAGE_REPO_DUPLICATE_WARN=3D"0" in > /etc/make.conf if you would like to disable this warning." > > - Grant Just figured it out. I had a duplicate tree in /usr/local/portage which I just deleted. I had to re-set my profile with eselect. Please let me know if there's anything else I might have to re-do. - Grant