Re: [arch] Macbook Pro

2007-01-18 Thread daniel g. siegel
maybe you could start copying from the gentoo wiki ;) i followed that howto on my macbookpro. if you need some information, write me cheers daniel On Do, 2007-01-18 at 01:09 -0600, Samuel Mathieson wrote: Hello all. Ive started a wiki page on how to install to a Macbook Pro.

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Mircea Bardac
Hi all, On Thursday 18 January 2007 07:48, Michael Towers wrote: Michel Di Croci wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_ArchLinux_on_a_USB_key I will fill the missing section when I come back at home tonight. I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but I wonder about

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2007/1/18, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Di Croci wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_ArchLinux_on_a_USB_key I will fill the missing section when I come back at home tonight. Michel I don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, but I wonder about the

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2007/1/18, Michel Di Croci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/18/07, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/18, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michel Di Croci wrote: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_ArchLinux_on_a_USB_key I will fill the missing section when I

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Towers
Roman Kyrylych wrote: 2007/1/18, Michel Di Croci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... That's too bad! Really, I preferred my way since I have real partition on it (can be viewed from my main computer). And I don't like the idea that in the long term, I would have to recreate and rewrite all the config all

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2007/1/18, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Roman Kyrylych wrote: 2007/1/18, Michel Di Croci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ... That's too bad! Really, I preferred my way since I have real partition on it (can be viewed from my main computer). And I don't like the idea that in the long term, I

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Roman Kyrylych
2007/1/18, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unionfs + ramdisk + merging changes to USB on shutdown looks reasonable for me. Yes, this is quite straightforward for some things (e.g. configuration files and user data), but I think Michel is probably right about it not being so

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Michel Di Croci
On 1/18/07, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/1/18, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED]: unionfs + ramdisk + merging changes to USB on shutdown looks reasonable for me. Yes, this is quite straightforward for some things (e.g. configuration files and user data), but I think

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread Michael Towers
Roman Kyrylych wrote: On large drives there's no need for squashfs. And software updates will be OK, just don't forget to do pacman -Scc after each update. There's still a RAM issue when downloading and unpacking packages. One of solutions that will lessen the problem is to sync ramdisk to

Re: [arch] Just to tell you what I've done yesterday

2007-01-18 Thread James
On 1/19/07, Roman Kyrylych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't play with unionfs much, but maybe other filesystems can do this more easily: + funionfs (based on fuse) + mapfs + cow support ripped from UML? :p - ext3cow - not suitable for this :( (different idea) unionfs is the most developed

[arch] ssh and lastb

2007-01-18 Thread Leif Thande
Hi, After a recovery from a recent hacking (which my friend was responsible of by setting root password to root and allowing root ssh login), I took some time to parse the logs. While looking, I notice that lastb wasn't returning anything. In /var/log/auth.log, there was this message everytime