Another responder mentioned block sizes. Yes, that mb the problem.
> I'm new to USB sticks & haven't formatted them in any way:
> they seem to have an existing file system on them,
> but mb it's Fat32, which seems likely to be inefficient.
> So are there any standard recommendations for formattin
On Saturday 20 October 2007, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Philip Webb writes:
> > BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'.
> > I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net.
>
> You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic
> install
Philip Webb schrieb:
071020 b.n. wrote:
Philip Webb ha scritto:
Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs
takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ?
It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files.
It won't affect today's installation jo
Philip Webb writes:
> BTW I'm amazed that System Rescue doesn't seem to know re 'pppoe'.
> I hope to install Gentoo from the copied files w/o using the I/net.
You can also use any other boot CD. Well, unless you use the automatic
installer, but it seems people don't like it much and prefer to do
071020 b.n. wrote:
> Philip Webb ha scritto:
>> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs
>> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ?
>> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files.
>> It won't affect today's installation job,
>> but w
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 04:51:25 -0400
Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--snip--
>
> Anyone have a suggestion why using 'cp -a' to copy a lot of subdirs
> takes additional space on the USB stick (over the HDD space used) ?
> It doesn't happen when copying a straight set of files.
> It won't aff
Philip Webb ha scritto:
> 071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote:
>> On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
>>> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE',
>>> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD
>>> as '/dev/sda', neither the Gento
071019 Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
>> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE',
>> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD
>> as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it:
On Friday 19 October 2007, Philip Webb wrote:
> (1) The mobo (ASUS P5K-VM) manual has as default 'Configure SATA as IDE',
> which I have left as is. However, while the System Rescue CD finds the HDD
> as '/dev/sda', neither the Gentoo Live CD nor Knoppix sees it:
> should I change the mobo settin
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