Re: [gentoo-user] Best website backup practice

2008-12-20 Thread Mick
On Friday 19 December 2008, kashani wrote: Mick wrote: Aha! Never done this. How would you go about it? To be honest I've never attempted it. Most of my recent installations have been large enough where having an actual backup server was a requirement. However Gentoo does include the

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Paul, Paul Hartman wrote: 1 a: be commanded or requested to you must stop b: be urged to : ought by all means to you must read that book 2: be compelled by physical necessity to one must eat to live : be required by immediate or future need or purpose to we must hurry to catch the bus 3 a:

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 20 December 2008 08:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge -av --depclean: kde-base/kopete selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kget selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 08:27:40 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: emerge -av --depclean: kde-base/kopete selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3 kde-base/kget selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: 4.1.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common problems with KDE:

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 December 2008 15:48:25 Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Tuesday 16 December 2008 21:48:50 Willie Wong wrote: Basically you just need [...] What else do we need if the printer is an HP DJ4260? This

Re: must not (was Re: [gentoo-user] Raid reports wrong size)

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 19 December 2008 20:53:47 Paul Hartman wrote: Yes, in English must can also mean that you infer or presume something. s/presume/assume/ (Not the same meaning, in spite of popular misuse.) -- Rgds Peter

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:53:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: You can start by giving the relevant information, like what exactly related to kde is in world?. Chances are you only have KDE there, and emerge will probably want to nuke all but the latest SLOT. Common

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi -gnutls -java -kerberos -ldap -php -ppds -samba -slp -static -xinetd -zeroconf

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 USE dvdnav

2008-12-20 Thread Stroller
On 20 Dec 2008, at 03:46, Willie Wong wrote: ... Yet the ebuild seems to say: dvdnav? ( =media-libs/libdvdnav-4.1.3 =media-libs/libdvdread-4.1.3 ) ... I think I have emerged the appropriate versions of libdvdnav libdvdread: $ eix -I -c libdvd [I]

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Grant
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for? Pitfalls to avoid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Grant
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for? Pitfalls to avoid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying everything from the old drive to the new drive with: cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? but it's taking hours. Both drives are SATAII

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Graham Murray
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? yes it does cp --help Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY or: cp [OPTION]... -t DIRECTORY SOURCE... Copy SOURCE to DEST,

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? yes it does See below cp --help Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T] SOURCE DEST or: cp [OPTION]... SOURCE... DIRECTORY

Re: [gentoo-user] video driver discovery

2008-12-20 Thread Robert Bridge
On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:35:35 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: How can I verify which driver(version) it is using? Read /etc/log/Xorg.0/log It will tell you which driver it loaded. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 USE dvdnav

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 03:43:05PM +, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: libdvdnav-4.1.3 is keyworded ~x86, while mplayer-1.0_rc2_p28058-r1 is keyworded x86. The USE cannot be satisfied. I'm really sorry, I don't understand. The dvdnav mask was added when the libdvdnav was hardmasked. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't care which options are missing in Solaris' version of cp ;-) Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't care which options are missing in Solaris' version of cp ;-) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Grant
I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for? Pitfalls to avoid,

Re: [gentoo-user] Print to cups printer from Windows - any good instructions?

2008-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 5:41 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Saturday 20 December 2008 11:37:32 Peter Humphrey wrote: These are the USE flags I installed CUPS with: [ebuild R ] net-print/cups-1.3.9-r1 USE=acl dbus jpeg pam perl png python ssl tiff -X -avahi

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 20:45:27 schrieb Joerg Schilling: Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Samstag, 20. Dezember 2008 18:44:53 schrieb Joerg Schilling: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? Sure he is. This is a Linux mailing list. We don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs,

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying everything from the old drive to the new drive with: cp -ax /olddrive/* /newdrive/ cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I'm about to switch from one SATA hard drive to another and I'm planning on going through the normal installation process except for copying over the data on each partition of my old drive to the corresponding partition on my new drive. Is there anything to watch out for?

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dale
Joerg Schilling wrote: Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) writes: cp neither has a -a nor a -x option. Are you talking abut gcp? yes it does See below cp --help Usage: cp [OPTION]... [-T]

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying everything from the old drive to the new drive with: cp -ax

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD I'm in the middle of copying everything from

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemm...@tu-clausthal.de wrote: On Samstag 20 Dezember 2008, Joerg Schilling wrote: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, I've booted to a LiveCD

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 21 Dezember 2008, Dale wrote: I have another question, is the star command on the CD? If it is not, then the point of using star is mute. I know I boot from the Gentoo CD, mount my partitions and then copy it over. If the command is not on the CD, then what? None of this

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The reason is that KDE4 is a new product and has nothing to do with KDE3 other than the name. And another reason is the problem I'm describing in this very thread which should have not been a problem if KDE4 had its own tree. Now I'm required to have

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Grant
It looks like I have 620GB free on this 1TB disk. From what I've read, formatting eats up about 7%, and I had 250Gb worth of data. Does that mean about 60GB are being reserved for root? If you used ext2/ext3 with mke2fs, the default is 5% reserved. If you put the whole disk in one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean wants to wipe out KDE3

2008-12-20 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] The reason is that KDE4 is a new product and has nothing to do with KDE3 other than the name. And another reason is the problem I'm describing in this very thread which should have not been a problem if KDE4 had its own tree. Now I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating hard drives

2008-12-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 08:35:47PM -0800, Penguin Lover Grant squawked: Can I change the amount reserved for root? for ext2/3, try 'man tune2fs'. W -- Proof by contradiction: Suppose the square root of 3 were rational. Then sqrt(3) = p / q, for some relatively prime integers p and q. Hence p