[gentoo-user] Re: source /etc/profile valid for all current and future sessions

2006-11-03 Thread F.J.Zhao
Logout and login, you will find the changes have become standard. That's because login bash shell will read /etc/profile first. 2006/11/3, Marco Calviani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi list, i have a question regarding the use of global environmental variables: as root i've changed some variables

[gentoo-user] Re: Mini Gentoo in VMWare

2006-11-03 Thread F.J.Zhao
In order to create very tiny vms, I suggest you use lfs instead. Gentoo is harder to do so. 2006/11/3, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Guys, Has anyone here played with minimalizing everything for use in vmware? Basically what I want to do is create a series of VERY tiny VMs that are all

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating loop devices

2006-10-30 Thread F.J.Zhao
Why not to use mknod? mknod b /dev/loop0 7 0 mknod b /dev/loop1 7 1 mknod b /dev/loop2 7 2 ... chgrp disk /dev/loop* 2006/10/30, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, I seem to be missing my loop devices in /dev... And I don't find any docs on the current method to do this. I imagine it's