On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 20:25:41 +0200, Arno Schuring
wrote:
>
> I stand corrected. Then your sector alignment should be a multiple of
> 8. I didn't know newer disks were all advanced format, even the smaller
> models.
>
I don't know, if all are. I just upgraded my laptop to 750 GB hard drive.
yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-18 00:09 +1000):
> > But the drive in question was 600GB (iirc). Too large for an SSD and
> > too small for advanced format...
> >
> It's an Advance format, check the fdisk output posted above.
I stand corrected. Then your sector alignment should be a multiple
Am Montag, 17. Oktober 2011 schrieb Arno Schuring:
> Virgo Pärna (virgo.pa...@mail.ee on 2011-10-17 08:50 +):
> > On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:16:02 +0200, Arno Schuring
> >
> > wrote:
> > > yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000):
> > >> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boun
> Or alternatively, install wicd. It seems to be far less temperamental.
> Thanks.
>
I will need to install the network tool from the ISO image I got, I should
be able to mount it and install software from there, right?
I remember doing exactly the same with Fedora once.
Certainly, you are correct :)
> As general advice, 8 sectors is better because of advanced format. But
> then you also have to account for modern SSDs, which have erase block
> sizes between 128 and 512kB (256 or 1024 sectors), and for partitioning
> hw-raid devices you need to know the stripe siz
On Monday 17 October 2011 14:46:55 Ralf Jung wrote:
> As for network-manager, just install it with apt - alongside with the gnome
> applet or the KDE plasma widget or whatever frontend you plan to use.
Or alternatively, install wicd. It seems to be far less temperamental.
Lisi
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Virgo Pärna (virgo.pa...@mail.ee on 2011-10-17 08:50 +):
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:16:02 +0200, Arno Schuring
> wrote:
> > yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000):
> >> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
> > This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to chan
Hi,
> I unwittingly went for the bare bones install as last time I installed lot
> of junk checking quite a few options, now some of the essential tools I am
> used to are missing, I cannot connect to the internet as network manager is
> not installed, is there any other way I can connect to mobi
Installed Debian i386, will leave 64bit for the next time.
Once again, at boot and shut down, the order in which it looks for LVM
volumes is incorrect.
At boot time,
it looks for LVM volumes before opening up the LUKS container.
and at shut down, the order is in reverse.
I unwittingly went for th
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 22:16 +1000, yudi v wrote:
> > By default Squeeze installs grub2
> >
> > Cool, I always get confused with GRUB and GNOME.
>
> Is it worth trying amd64 install. I tried this long ago and wasted lot of
> time trying to get it working. Whats the current status?
Yes, it works fi
> By default Squeeze installs grub2
>
> Cool, I always get confused with GRUB and GNOME.
Is it worth trying amd64 install. I tried this long ago and wasted lot of
time trying to get it working. Whats the current status?
On 17/10/11 22:16, yudi v wrote:
>
>
>
> Also Sqeeze only installs GRUB legacy by default
By default Squeeze installs grub2
> --
> Kind regards,
> Yudi
>
$ dpkg --get-selections | grep grub
grub-common install
grub-pc
>
> > Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
> This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to change this to 1.
> The 2048 value is just wasteful (an overly safe default). Whether you
> care about losing that 2MB is your call...
>
True I can start at 8, not a big deal.
>
> > To
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:16:02 +0200, Arno Schuring
wrote:
> yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000):
>> Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
> This is not necessary. Menu X, D will allow you to change this to 1.
> The 2048 value is just wasteful (an overly safe defaul
yudi v (yudi@gmail.com on 2011-10-16 15:20 +1000):
> Could someone using GPT on a BIOS system confirm if I got the GPT
> partitioning right on a BIOS system
>
[..]
> Partition table scan:
> MBR: protective
> BSD: not present
> APM: not present
> GPT: present
>
> Found valid GPT with p
Could someone using GPT on a BIOS system confirm if I got the GPT
partitioning right on a BIOS system
I followed the documentation from http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/
This is the out put after partitioning the HDD using Ubuntu 11.10 live CD
root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# gdisk /dev/sda
GPT fdisk (gd
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