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. -- Neil Bothwick Borg -- James Borg -- licensed to assimilate.
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