On 9/2/2011, at 2:27pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> ...
> Following Walt's recent thread about his experiences using grub2 I
> think getting folks used to disk labels at installation time, be they
> names or even better UUID's, might fit in very well with installation
> instructions that cover using grub
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote:
Kewl !! That works. Wonder if I should try this way out. See if I
can mess this up. o_O
Why would you want to swap a concise, readable fstab for one that needs
to be filled with comments to make any sense at all
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 06:45:53 -0600, Dale wrote:
> Kewl !! That works. Wonder if I should try this way out. See if I
> can mess this up. o_O
Why would you want to swap a concise, readable fstab for one that needs
to be filled with comments to make any sense at all?
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On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:45:53 Dale wrote:
> Joost Roeleveld wrote:
> > On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote:
> >> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote:
> If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use
> >>
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote:
If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use
:r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with
On Thursday 10 February 2011 06:31:12 Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote:
> >> If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use
> >>
> >> :r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some
> >> :additional
>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 12:00:24 +0200, Petri Rosenström wrote:
If you use vi(m) you don't have to type too much neither. Just use
:r!blkid /dev/sda in vi(m) and you have the UUID, with some additional
information, but the rest is just vi(m) magic.
None of which make
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 16:27 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Mark
> Knecht did opine thusly:
>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale wrote:
>> > James wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >>
>> >> So looking at the handbook, I was wondering
>> >
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:27 on Wednesday 09 February 2011, Mark
Knecht did opine thusly:
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> > James wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> So looking at the handbook, I was wondering
> >> why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels
> >> during th
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:51:46 + (UTC), James wrote:
> These aren't needed to get a system up and running. Yeah, Ubuntu uses
> them for various ID purposes, but nothing really critical. Unless
> there's a clear need for them, for example if some package in the
> @system set will use them in a way
On 9. 2. 2011 15:16, Dale wrote:
So looking at the handbook, I was wondering
why it does not describe how to use Disk Labels
during the installation process. Dunno.
Given that some folks on here have ran into USB drives changing the
order of partitions, I think this is a good idea.
The same
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Dale wrote:
> 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
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*
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James
Given that some folks on here have r
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