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From: Peter Chant on 14 Jan 2010 14:56
Eric B�se-Wolf wrote:


> I use it for an encrypted swap partition. So you can savely use
> hibernation without your precious data in the ram being exposed
> unencrypted on a unencrypted swap partition.

I do not use swap on my eee, I've the SSD drive so I don't want to
prematurely age it.

Pete
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From: Res on 14 Jan 2010 18:50
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Robert Komar wrote:

> notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote:
>> Why? Why would I use LVM? I've looked it up in wikipedia and, well,
>> so what? My eee has a 160G HDD and the most I've dealt with are 60G
>> HDDs. Gotten by jes fine without it so far. What is LVM good for?
>> Do I really need it?
>
> You probably don't really need it if you don't already know what it's
> for. Logical Volume Manager lets you pull multiple disks into a single
> volume, that you can then partition in any way you like (even easily
> stripe the data across disks for RAID0 performance). The partitions

software raid is its original and real name, and its hopelessly slow
compared to hardware raid, and i'd never use raid0, at least if a disk
dies, you still have data on your other disks that its 100% clean if you
use separate disks for different partitions, i'd only use hardware raid,
and only ever raid 10 at that.


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From: notbob on 15 Jan 2010 00:31
On 2010-01-14, Peter Chant <peteRE(a)MpeteOzilla.Vco.ukE> wrote:
>
> Slack 12.2 works nicely on mine. Some things in that link would have helped
> me with setting up mine, such as the hotkey for toggling wifi. Presumably
> the newer hardware would now be in the kernel for slack 13.0 as well. It
> did not say what desktop environment was used. Suspect KDE 4.2 is not happy
> on an eee 900.

I'm still slogging through this install website, but have some
questions:

In reading Alienbob's USB installer for 13, I get the impression it
will create a new image named usbhd.img using the slack 13 source tree
files, which I'd hafta download all over again, unless there's a way
to break them out from the DVD iso I jes spent 6 hrs dwnlding. Having
jes bought a fresh 8G (vfat) flash drive, isn't there a way to jes put
the std DVD image (iso) on the key and use it like an install DVD?
I've been burning slack iso's and using them to install for so long,
I'm clueless about other methods. Point me to some help, I'll do the
reading.

Hell, I'll cough up the $$ for a DVD burner/player if I have to, but
I hope there's cheaper way. My eee has a 160G HDD split into
two drives (C:, D:). I jes want to do a straight up install of slack 13
on the D: partition. Since this eee's bios allows booting off other
storage media, shouldn't be to much diff than installing from CD on my
desktop ...or am I missing something.

nb
From: jim dorey on 15 Jan 2010 01:17
notbob wrote:

> isn't there a way to jes put the std DVD image (iso) on the key and
> use it like an install DVD?

yes
From: Ed Wilson on 15 Jan 2010 10:32
notbob wrote:

> In reading Alienbob's USB installer for 13, I get the impression it
> will create a new image named usbhd.img using the slack 13 source tree
> files, which I'd hafta download all over again, unless there's a way
> to break them out from the DVD iso I jes spent 6 hrs dwnlding.

man mount, look for information on loop devices.

> Having jes bought a fresh 8G (vfat) flash drive,
> isn't there a way to jes put
> the std DVD image (iso) on the key and use it like an install DVD?
> I've been burning slack iso's and using them to install for so long,
> I'm clueless about other methods. Point me to some help, I'll do the
> reading.
>

How many flash drives do you own? The last time I installed from USB I used
two, one with the USB boot image, and the other had everything using the
same directory structure as the DVD. There is probably a way to have
everything on one flash drive but I have not tried that since I have
multiple flash drives.

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Ed

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