[gentoo-user] Re: Very OT - Need help removing NTLDR [SOLVED]
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Michael Sullivan wrote: [...] I found this site: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_Boot_from_Windows_Bootloader_(NTLDR)_and_why#Single_disk_installation It's got my wife's computer doing what she wanted it to now, for the most part. I should have thought to look at the Gentoo wiki before I sent off my original mail. We're still having a problem with ALSA in Linux, but I want to work on that a bit more on my own before I go asking for help. On the one hand, yeh, RTFM. On the other, I, at least, was intrigued by your post, having come across the same issue. You've at least spread knowledge :) -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III)
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, JC Denton wrote: From: JC Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Gentoo on a PDA (mda III or xda III) Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user Hi Group! I was looking for a project that installs Gentoo on a PDA (MDA III or XDA III) but did not find something useful. Is there such a project? I found the familiar and xandux project so far but I would like to try Gentoo. Regards Out of curiosity, what's your PDA? An MDA III? -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] USB sync/async mount
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Tamas Sarga wrote: From: Tamas Sarga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] USB sync/async mount Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user Hi, I've read some docs about mount of USB keys, but I can not figure out that if I have /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbautonoauto,user 0 0 in my /etc/fstab, then my key would be mounted sync, or async mode? TIA. Cheers, Tamas Sarga SĂĄrga TamĂĄs -- Make the world confused!Zavard Ăśssze a vilĂĄgot! Smile on monday morning!Mosolyogj hĂŠtfĂľ reggel! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list thanks! :) Now I can mount my mp3 player (gotta get an ogg player). My fstab, if anyone's wondering: /dev/hda2/boot ext2defaults1 2 /dev/hda3noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/hda4/ ext3defaults0 1 none/proc procdefaults 0 0 none/dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsvfat users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbautonoauto,user 0 0 -Thufir
Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo? On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote: From: Jochen Schalanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo? Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user On 10/13/2004 11:10 PM, Felix Tiede wrote: submount is supposed to supersede supermount as supermount is running in kernel-space, while submount is a user-space-tool. I think that is not quite correct. submount is a kernel module, hence it runs in kernel space. A userspace solution for automounting would be dbus+hal+ivman or gnome-volume-manager. I tried supermount, submount, and dbus+hal+ivman and at the moment I like submount best since it perfectly fits my needs. But as already said, all the programs (automount, supermount, submount, ivman) have a slightly different featureset, so one should really try them all and decide afterwards which one to choose. Jochen Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. -Thufir localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -vp submount These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 159 kB Total size of downloads: 159 kB localhost ~ # emerge submount Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 to / Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz --15:04:32-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 216.165.129.135, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 88,203 (86K) [application/x-gzip] 100%[] 88,20326.49K/sETA 00:00 15:04:36 (26.47 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz' saved [88203/88203] Downloading http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz --15:04:36-- http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz = `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz' Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 64.50.238.52, 64.50.236.52, 216.165.129.135, ... Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|64.50.238.52|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 75,476 (74K) [application/x-gzip] 100%[] 75,47664.24K/s 15:04:38 (64.11 KB/s) - `/usr/portage/distfiles/submount-0.9.tar.gz' saved [75476/75476] md5 files ;-) submount-0.9-r2.ebuild md5 files ;-) files/digest-submount-0.9-r2 md5 src_uri ;-) submount-2.4-0.9.tar.gz md5 src_uri ;-) submount-0.9.tar.gz * Determining the location of the kernel source code * Found kernel source directory: * /usr/src/linux * Could not find a usable .config in the kernel source directory. * Please ensure that /usr/src/linux points to a configured set of Linux sources. * If you are using KBUILD_OUTPUT, please set the environment var so that * it points to the necessary object directory so that it might find .config. !!! ERROR: sys-fs/submount-0.9-r2 failed. !!! Function linux-info_pkg_setup, Line 537, Exitcode 1 !!! Unable to calculate Linux Kernel version !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # date Thu Mar 23 15:05:01 GMT 2006 localhost ~ # I'm not sure what's meant by the topmost build error, but as it's not too large, I included everything. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo?
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jochen Schalanda wrote: From: Jochen Schalanda [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] autofs, supermount, submount... which is best for Gentoo? Newsgroups: linux.gentoo.user On 10/13/2004 11:10 PM, Felix Tiede wrote: submount is supposed to supersede supermount as supermount is running in kernel-space, while submount is a user-space-tool. I think that is not quite correct. submount is a kernel module, hence it runs in kernel space. A userspace solution for automounting would be dbus+hal+ivman or gnome-volume-manager. I tried supermount, submount, and dbus+hal+ivman and at the moment I like submount best since it perfectly fits my needs. But as already said, all the programs (automount, supermount, submount, ivman) have a slightly different featureset, so one should really try them all and decide afterwards which one to choose. Jochen Very informative, thanks. I think I'll go with submount. -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] mozplugger is masked
It's masked: localhost ~ # emerge mozplugger Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy mozplugger have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - net-www/mozplugger-1.6.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - net-www/mozplugger-1.7.3 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - net-www/mozplugger-1.7.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) - net-www/mozplugger-1.5.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. localhost ~ # date Wed Mar 22 14:36:00 GMT 2006 localhost ~ # but, when I went to http://packages.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?mozplugger-1.5.2 I notice just one bug relating to installing mozplugger. Do other gentoo users unmask generally, go without, or substitute? I don't think there's a substitute, but... The wiki's down at the moment :( -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge java syntax
I'm at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml, which gives the syntax as: emerge =sun-jdk-1.5* but the pretend isn't working as I expect it to. localhost ~ # localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -p =sun-jdk-1.5* These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy =sun-jdk-1.5* have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06-r2 (masked by: package.mask) # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # Many things in the tree don't compile with 1.5 yet. # 1.5 defaults to -target 1.5, which makes downgrading to a 1.4/1.3 # impossible. See bug #69970 and bug 65937 for more information. # http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/java/tiger-faq.xml For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. localhost ~ # date Wed Mar 22 17:45:47 GMT 2006 localhost ~ # The .bin file is in the proper place: localhost ~ # localhost ~ # ls /usr/portage/distfiles/ -hal [...] -rw-r--r--1 root root 47M Mar 22 17:01 jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin [...] Hmm, is it a naming problem? jdk-1_5_0_06-linux-i586.bin sun-jdk-1.5.0.06-r2 thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: emerge java syntax
So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited? I see the sense in having different grades of unmasking, but not the need for two distinct files(?). thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] use flags, mplayer, lame
If down the road I realize that I've left out use flag for mplayer would I have to recompile mplayer? localhost ~ # localhost ~ # emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] media-sound/lame-3.96.1 -debug +gtk 1,226 kB [ebuild N] media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15 -3dnow +alsa +arts -directfb +esd -flac -jack -lirc +mad +mikmod -mmx +mp3 +nls +oss -sndfile +vorbis 3,006 kB [ebuild N] media-video/mplayer-1.0.20060217 -3dfx -3dnow -3dnowext +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) +arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvd -dvdread -edl +encode +esd -fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0 +ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo +mad -matroska -matrox -mmx -mmxext -musepack -nas +nls -nvidia +opengl +oss +png -real -rtc +samba +sdl -sse -sse2 -svga -tga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2 +vorbis -win32codecs -xanim -xinerama +xmms +xv -xvid -xvmc 7,431 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1 -3dnow +ipv6 -mmx +ssl 528 kB [ebuild N] media-libs/libmikmod-3.1.11-r1 +alsa +esd +oss 597 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-mikmod-1.2.10 0 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-vorbis-1.2.10-r1 +ipv6 +ssl 0 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-arts-0.7.1-r1 231 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-mad-0.8 307 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-esd-1.2.10-r1 +oss 0 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-oss-1.2.10 0 kB [ebuild N] media-plugins/xmms-alsa-1.2.10-r2 532 kB Total size of downloads: 13,861 kB localhost ~ # date Wed Mar 22 20:15:51 GMT 2006 localhost ~ # I could make /etc/packages/portage.use something like: 'media-sound/lame-3.96.1' along with the other flags, and then mplayer would have lame et. al. as plug-in's, yes? Or, do I have that wrong? Automagically mplayer will see 'media-sound/lame-3.96.1' and incorporate lame into mplayer? Or, is lame installed seperately? 'Default USE flags The current default USE flags for an x86 Linux system: File: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/make.defaults ... USE=alsa apm arts avi bitmap-fonts cups eds emboss encode fortran foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mp3 mpeg ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pdflib png qt quicktime sdl spell truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vorbis X xml2 xmms xv' http://gentoo-wiki.com/FAQ_USE_Flags But, I don't seem to have xmms installed, while I do have totem, so, I'm not totally understanding the significance of the above list. As I think about this more, it seems that, for example, I might just install lame directly with portage. In that case, it'd be up to mplayer to recognize lame's presence, yes? However, with the use flags, mplayer is compiled with lame? However, if another application is *also* installed with lame as a use flag, that'd be redundant. Or, not? They would both recursively install lame, with lame known to both mplayer and the second app? thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] core packages for a dual-boot system
I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over from fedora. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17394484 14690156 1806488 90% / /dev/hda2 101105 18104 77780 19% /boot /dev/shm111860 0111860 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 11451144 9922200 1528944 87% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ Occasionally I boot into windows and would, for the time being, like to keep that capability. However, I might entirely drop windows down the road. I want to be able to return to: ' After step 5, core packages, which are the same on all Gentoo installations, are installed' http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=1 as a baseline. Would there be a command to do so? To install: acroread Description: Adobe's PDF reader For an x86 system, would I download the file from adobe, then something like emerge acroread, and would that also give me the plugin for firefox? Or, is the firefox plugin for that through http://mozplugger.mozdev.org/ which connects to acroread? I know there are other GPL readers, of course. For perhaps a different thread, I'm feeling my way with with xmms, realplayer, windows media player, mplayer, shoutcast, streamripper and streamtuner, etc. Right now I have firefox configured such that an MP3 shoutcast playlist opens with Audio Player (xmms), which is ok, but I notice that streamtuner uses bmp. One of the reasons I'm looking at gentoo is in the hope that gentoo handles mplayer and the multitudes of codecs well. I have a gnoppix CD kicking around, so I'll probably use that, if I can find it. thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: core packages for a dual-boot system I've thought about gentoo for some time, and getting closer to switching over from fedora. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17394484 14690156 1806488 90% / /dev/hda2 101105 18104 77780 19% /boot /dev/shm111860 0111860 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 11451144 9922200 1528944 87% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 4.b. Designing a Partitioning Scheme Default Partitioning Scheme If you are not interested in drawing up a partitioning scheme for your system, you can use the partitioning scheme we use throughout this book: Partition Filesystem SizeDescription /dev/hda1 ext232M Boot partition /dev/hda2 (swap) 512MSwap partition /dev/hda3 ext3Rest of the diskRoot partition http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=4#fdisk So, I want something like: Partition Filesystem SizeDescription /dev/hda1 ext232M Boot partition /dev/hda2 (swap) 512MSwap partition /dev/hda3 ext3??? Root partition /dev/hda4 fat32 I'm concerned about overwriting the windows partition, or mucking up the dual-boot bootloader. There are directions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot#Single_Drive_Install_.28Windows_Pre-Installed.29, but I'd like to have it all worked out ahead of time for my own sake. Perhaps I don't even need to format anything? -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: core packages for a dual-boot system
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: .. as can be seen, there's a vfat partition, /mnt/windows. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 17394484 14690156 1806488 90% / /dev/hda2 101105 18104 77780 19% /boot /dev/shm111860 0111860 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda1 11451144 9922200 1528944 87% /mnt/windows [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ date Sun Mar 19 12:28:40 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ 4.b. Designing a Partitioning Scheme Default Partitioning Scheme If you are not interested in drawing up a partitioning scheme for your system, you can use the partitioning scheme we use throughout this book: Partition Filesystem SizeDescription /dev/hda1 ext232M Boot partition /dev/hda2 (swap) 512MSwap partition /dev/hda3 ext3Rest of the diskRoot partition http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=4#fdisk So, I want something like: Partition Filesystem SizeDescription /dev/hda1 ext232M Boot partition /dev/hda2 (swap) 512MSwap partition /dev/hda3 ext3??? Root partition /dev/hda4 fat32 I'm concerned about overwriting the windows partition, or mucking up the dual-boot bootloader. There are directions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Dual_boot#Single_Drive_Install_.28Windows_Pre-Installed.29, but I'd like to have it all worked out ahead of time for my own sake. Perhaps I don't even need to format anything? -Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd0,1) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.15-1.1833_FC4) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4.img title Fedora Core (2.6.14-1.1656_FC4) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.img title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img title Other rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date Sun Mar 19 16:18:10 EST 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# I also want to leave grub alone, yes? Well, I want to switch it from fedora to gentoo, somehow. But, I want to leave the windows part alone. Hmm. thanks, Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
