[gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi, I have an old Pentium machine with 64MB RAM that I planned to install Gentoo. I download Gentoo x86 minimal ISO and burn it to disk. The disk was able to boot, but not able to give the command prompt, with error cp: write error: No space left on device during copying to tempfs This symptom

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I think that any of the live CDs are going to give you problems with 64MB RAM. I think the minimal ISO is a live CD that allows you to install Gentoo from there. You can try installing another distro on the harddrive and then installing gentoo using that distro. Compiling Gentoo on such an

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan
Hi Dirk, Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded system. Thanks. On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 4:49 PM, Dirk Uys dirkc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I think that any

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Dale
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: Hi Dirk, Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded system. Thanks. You may want to check on Damn Small Linux. One of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote did you add alsasound to the boot process? i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone until i realised that i forgot to do that! also

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone get Acer laptop internal microphone working in Gentoo?

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 February 2011 09:45:44 Mick wrote: On Sunday 13 February 2011 22:10:42 Walter Dnes wrote: On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 12:18:40PM +0530, Yohan Pereira wrote did you add alsasound to the boot process? i went 6 months trying to figure out what was wrong with my microphone

[gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread covici
Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works under Windows through a KVM, so I am pretty sure the monitor is OK, but I don't understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Thursday 17 February 2011 18:25:47 Dale wrote: Dale wrote: Well, what got me once was the trip a package took. I ordered something, can't remember what it was now but anyway, it left Memphis, went to Atlanta and sat there a day or two, then went to some place in Kentucky and sat there

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-18 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Since this is the gentoo-user mailing list I better explain that routing of parcels is performed so as to minimise journeys (hence fuel and driver costs) for the company, rather than minimise delivery time for the end customer. Usually they may delay a journey to make sure that the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Alex Schuster
Dale writes: Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded system. Thanks. You may want to check on Damn Small

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:58:04 +, Mick wrote: Since this is the gentoo-user mailing list I better explain that routing of parcels is performed so as to minimise journeys (hence fuel and driver costs) for the company, rather than minimise delivery time for the end customer. Usually they may

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected altogether. It works under Windows through

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 February 2011 11:45:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:58:04 +, Mick wrote: Since this is the gentoo-user mailing list I better explain that routing of parcels is performed so as to minimise journeys (hence fuel and driver costs) for the company, rather than

Re: [gentoo-user] Prelink on a already fast system

2011-02-18 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: Hmm ... $ euse -i dhl global use flags (searching: dhl) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: dhl) no matching entries found No good, but hold

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:27, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Um, why do you want to use gentoo on such a system anyway? If it will be a text-only system, being used as router or something, okay, this would probably work, but other distros could do this as well. I have run and

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/18/2011 11:21 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan wrote: Hi Dirk, Yes I noticed that. Most websites that I search for did not recommend running Linux live-cd on 64MB RAM. Looks like to have to search for distro that is tailored for embedded system. Thanks. You could also try Arch Linux,

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread covici
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but when I start gdm, the monitor acts as though it was disconnected

Re: [gentoo-user] monitor acting strangely when gdm starts

2011-02-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 February 2011 18:37:43 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Friday 18 February 2011 10:35:15 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I have a Nvidia GeFORCE 8400 gs and when I am using the text console and frame buffer (uvesafb) things are OK, but

[gentoo-user] New drive devices after install

2011-02-18 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all, I just finished a new (RAID1) installation and most if it is working just fine. However, I don't have any drive device files in /dev/.  I'd expect to see hda, hdb,md{1-3} The only error I get on boot is where fsck can't open /dev/md3.  Then the system boots up just fine.  /proc/mdstat

[gentoo-user] emacs iso-8859-1

2011-02-18 Thread David Relson
G'day, ISO-8859-1 uses byte values 0xC0 to 0xFF for European accented characters (amongst otherss). I have a binary file whose bytes have values 0xC0 to 0xFF. Emacs is presently displaying them as octal, i.e. \300\301\302\303 etc. How do I get emacs to display them as accented characters?

[gentoo-user] Re: dual boot RAID

2011-02-18 Thread james
Mark Knecht markknecht at gmail.com writes: I guess the one thing above I'm not clear about is your choice of what appears to be RAID 0? RAID 0 is hardly RAID as there's no redundancy. Lose 1 drive you lose all your data. Also, if you're doing Linux RAID then the MB chipset RAID stuff is

[gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo minimal CD not runable on 64MB RAM machine

2011-02-18 Thread James
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzzaman at gmail.com writes: Hi,I have an old Pentium machine with 64MB RAM that I planned to install Gentoo. Nils posted a new i586 iso here: ftp://one.tisys.org/pub/linux/tisys/gentoo see the feb 8th Nils discussion in gentoo-user. There use to be an old