Re: [gentoo-user] i386 vs amd64
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 20:07 -0400, Sean wrote: I have a dual opteron here and I am thinking of putting Gentoo on it. I am trying to decide to go with either the amd64 or i386 version. So I am asking some Gentoo amd64 users, are you happy with the version or would you have gained more with i386? Do most applications work on amd64 or are there some important ones missing? I have been running an x86_64 (amd64) system for a few months now. The only thing I have been missing is a 64bit version of Macromedia Shockwave plugin. Apparently, there is no 64bit version for this proprietary software. Everything else is fine. I have all I need on my desktop. x86_64 version of Openoffice-bin (rc3) takes a long time to open, but is promising. Good luck, -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] low-level formatting a harddrive
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 09:28 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: I wonder if there isn't a tiny part of the drive that comes before the first partition, like those first few grooves on a vinyl record ;-) There is. You can reset it by using fdisk /mbr (from the Microsoft Windows boot disk). Or you can try using cfdisk as described below. man cfdisk DOS 6.x WARNING The DOS 6.x FORMAT command looks for some information in the first sector of the data area of the partition, and treats this information as more reliable than the information in the partition table. DOS FORMAT expects DOS FDISK to clear the first 512 bytes of the data area of a partition whenever a size change occurs. DOS FORMAT will look at this extra information even if the /U flag is given -- we consider this a bug in DOS FORMAT and DOS FDISK. The bottom line is that if you use cfdisk or fdisk to change the size of a DOS partition table entry, then you must also use dd to zero the first 512 bytes of that par-tition before using DOS FORMAT to format the partition. For example, if you were using cfdisk to make a DOS partition table entry for /dev/hda1, then (after exiting fdisk or cfdisk and rebooting Linux so that the partition table information is valid) you would use the command dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count=1 to zero the first 512 bytes of the partition. Note: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL if you use the dd command, since a small typo can make all of the data on your disk useless. -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] Ethereal compile error
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 00:20 +1000, Dan wrote: Please help -- I can't emerge ethereal and I would really like to use it. Try revdep-rebuild. If it is not available emerge gentoolkit and try again. You may have some missing links to the libraries. Good luck, -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: [gentoo-user] stealth ethernet
On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:19 +, James wrote: Hello, For a variety of reasons, I need to be able to make an ethernet interface on a gentoo system, change into listen only (stealth mode). Kind of like half duplex, so to speak. Any simple tricks? Just disabling all responses from the ethernet interface would do. I know I can just use 'ifconfig eth0 down' but anything more elegant or that would allow the interface to keep receiving packets for analysis and logging would be better. I've never used this one, but the idea of a Honeypot is simple and sounds like what you are looking for. emerge -s honey Searching... [ Results for search key : honey ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * net-analyzer/honeyd [ Masked ] Latest version available: 1.0-r1 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 2,566 kB Homepage:http://www.citi.umich.edu/u/provos/honeyd/ Description: Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network License: GPL-2 -- Scott Tiret [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
