Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world
Hi, 2006/7/30, Alex Fortwinder [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep some of the packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep --newuse world? Just add the new versions of packages you don't want to be upgraded to /etc/portage/package.mask Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning
Hi Benno, 2005/7/15, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Robert, /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk Have you tried using parted on this disk? I'm quite curious as to what it will say about these out-of-order partitions, and the unusual boundaries. (Be careful though with executing other commands than print, as they act immediately.) I tried parted, but it doesn't report any errors: (parted) print Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-57231.562 megabytes Disk label type: msdos MinorStart End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 63.984 primary ext2 2 63.984 39235.710 extended 6 64.015 1088.226 logical linux-swap 5 1088.227 39235.710 logical reiserfs 3 39235.711 47230.158 primary boot 4 47231.789 57231.070 primary fat32 lba Benno Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] fdisk errors after repartitioning
Hi, I recently repartitioned my harddisk. Before my HD had 4 partitions, all primary ones: boot, swap, Linux (Reiserfs) and Windows (FAT32). I shrinked the reiserfs-partition and then deleted it. I deleted swap, too. Then I created an extended partition. Within this extended partition I created a new logical partition which had the same start and end cylinders as the resized Reiserfs partition. Further I created a new swap partition within the extended partition and created a (primary) partition for FreeBSD on the place freed by resizing the Reiser-partition. Actually everything seems to work, I'm not missing any files and all systems (Linux, FreeBSD and Windows) work fine. The only thing which seems strange is an error thrown by fdisk: # fdisk /dev/hda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 116280. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 116280 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 130 65488+ 83 Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda2 131 79717401118485 Extended Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda3 * 79718 95960 8186314+ a5 FreeBSD Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda4 95964 11627910239264c W95 FAT32 (LBA) Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/hda52212 7971739063024 83 Linux /dev/hda6 1312211 1048792+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris cfdisk doesn't even start but stops with the following message: FATAL ERROR: Bad logical partition 6: enlarged logical partitions overlap Press any key to exit cfdisk Do you have any ideas how I could get rid of these messages? Thanks in advance! Regards, Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Connect to a remote server with a modem
Hi, 2005/6/28, Patrick Marquetecken [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I going to maintain a Gentoo server in another country, normal i'm going to connect with the internet, but if something is wrong i'm thinking to connect a modem to the machine. What do i need of software so i can connect with a another machine to this machine over a telephone line? The machine has no X installed. If you install mgetty on the remote machine and configure it to listen for incoming calls you can connect with any terminal program like minicom. Robert. TIA Patrick -- This is Unix-Land. In quiet nights, you can hear the Windows machines reboot. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kde 3.3 monolothic to kde 3.4 splitted helper script?
Hi, 2005/5/22, Julien Cayzac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Has anybody already written a script which looks at the contents of a kde 3.3 install (and kde apps that relies on it) and outputs a listing of the splitted ebuilds required to get the same install with kde 3.4 ? Maybe http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-314633.html helps you. It's not a script but some useful hints. Robert. Julien. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Share serial port over network
Hi, 2005/5/15, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 15 May 2005 12:15:06 +0200 Robert G. Siebeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Well, before writing my own program I wanted to know if there already | is one. There's ser2net... Actually ser2net comes close to what I was thinking about, but they recommend telnet as client. But for my needs I would need a device file at the client computer. Is there any way to get a device file which represents the remote serial port? Robert. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
