Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-17 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:54 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: ... In terms of frying/bricking USB sticks are just the same kind of flash memory as in SD-cards, surely? Both are $8 for 16GB of storage, so wear / failure is only a concern if the server is to be inaccessible. But

[gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Jarry
Hi Gentoo-users, I have read all articles about Raspberry Pi on Gentoo-wiki, but want to ask: Is anybody here really using Gentoo on RPi? Is it usable? I have a chance of free housing for my RPi so I thought I give it a try, using RPi as backup-DNS/MX (and watchdog) for my primary server. Right

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Stroller
On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:34 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: … 1. What is better to use as OS-storage: USB-stick or SD-card? I have read horror stories about SD-cards being fried/bricked quite frequently so I'm a little scared. But I never found single post about problems with

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Jarry
On 16-Apr-14 17:46, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:34 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: … 1. What is better to use as OS-storage: USB-stick or SD-card? I have read horror stories about SD-cards being fried/bricked quite frequently so I'm a little scared. But I never found single

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:34:54 +0200 Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gentoo-users, I have read all articles about Raspberry Pi on Gentoo-wiki, but want to ask: Is anybody here really using Gentoo on RPi? Yes. Is it usable? Depends on your goal. I have a chance of free housing for my

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 16 Apr 2014 17:34:54 Jarry wrote: 2. What distro? Right now I'm using Gentoo on all my servers but I'm not sure it is the best option for this puppy (Gentoo puts quite high demands on filesystem). If I redirect all the compilation work to other mature server (distcc/crossdev),

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Ralf
Hey, some time ago I wrote an article about how to install Gentoo on a Raspberry Pi: https://blog.ramses-pyramidenbau.de/?p=188 Maybe this is interesting for you. There's also a precompiled bootable image available for download. Regards Ralf On 04/16/2014 07:11 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: On

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Francisco Ares
2014-04-16 12:57 GMT-03:00 Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org: ... When you plan to do Gentoo, spend some time on avoiding much writes to the SD card if possible; put /var/tmp/portage on external drive, etc... Having a few systems now, all running Gentoo, I use to mount a NFS /usr/portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread William Kenworthy
On 04/16/14 23:46, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:34 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: … 1. What is better to use as OS-storage: USB-stick or SD-card? I have read horror stories about SD-cards being fried/bricked quite frequently so I'm a little scared. But I never found

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi Gentoo?

2014-04-16 Thread Alecks Gates
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 6:44 PM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 04/16/14 23:46, Stroller wrote: On Wed, 16 April 2014, at 4:34 pm, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: … 1. What is better to use as OS-storage: USB-stick or SD-card? I have read horror stories about SD-cards

Re: [gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi, gentoo and FritzCard USB2.1

2014-02-03 Thread Jens Reinemuth
Am Samstag, 25. Januar 2014, 06:01:32 schrieb Jens Reinemuth: Hi everybody... [...] Hi again... as there was no response and i did again a lot of googling there really seems to exist no way to use a usb fritzcard with a kernel 2.6.x and no one ported a driver... Now i have the problem

[gentoo-user] Raspberry Pi, gentoo and FritzCard USB2.1

2014-01-24 Thread Jens Reinemuth
Hi everybody... as i own now my second Pi (the first one is my mediaplayer with OpenElec), i thought i should use this one for more than just streaming... Therefor i installed gentoo on it - as it simply has more possibilities than raspian or others. I have an older FritzCardUSB aroud her and