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Hello to all. I am going to install Arch tonight but will be doing so on a Maxtor 120GB SATA drive. Is there anything that I should know in advance using a SATA drive? I have glanced at the Install documentation and didn't notice anyting, although I could have missed it.
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nope. you should be fine.
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Whew! Thanks for the quick reply.
I didn't have any problem with a recent Ubuntu install, just wanted to make sure as I know some distros can be a little picky...
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Another question, as I'm reading the documentation: If I choose Auto-Prepare to partition my hard drive, does it use the ext2 filesystem as a default? In other words, if I wanted to use ReiserFS, I would have to manually partition everything?
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Another question, as I'm reading the documentation: If I choose Auto-Prepare to partition my hard drive, does it use the ext2 filesystem as a default? In other words, if I wanted to use ReiserFS, I would have to manually partition everything?
Please read the official install guide, your answer is right there.
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I am reading it, and shortly answered my own question. Thanks for the reply though!
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Just a tip: Don't install/use devfs at all when picking the base packages, just udev- this will save you some work if you want to switch later. SATA HD's are under /dev/sdx with udev.
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