Dale wrote:
I came to Gentoo from Linux From Scratch because I wanted something more
user friendly when it came to keeping track of package dependencies and
compilation procedures.
That is how I describe Gentoo, Linux from Scratch with a package manager
and other neat tools. I think
Michael Mol wrote:
This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with
Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia
encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live
transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like.
I came to
czernitko wrote:
I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it,
and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I
would like to keep it that way if possible.
You don't need an initramfs but you might want to reconsider not using one
at some
Dale wrote:
Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I
tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped
the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think.
The unofficial wiki.
I had some difficulties because the way I
David W Noon wrote:
I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
(32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as
it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc.
This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sensible
Dale wrote:
Jack Byer wrote:
Dale wrote:
Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I
tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped
the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think.
The unofficial wiki.
I had some
Florian Philipp wrote:
Another thing you can think of is whether you want encryption. I've done
this for my laptop. The usual setup would by md-lvm-crypt. I've done
it crypt-lvm (an LVM physical volume on top of an encrypted partition).
This way, I only need to enter the password once. You
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Nov 28, 2011 6:24 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I don't know where the 'blame' lies, but I've found myself
standardizing on MAKEOPTS=-j3, and PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--jobs
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