On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 09:17:45 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 17:52:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:26:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Oh, and do you know why the handbook now says to include a tiny
grub partition before the boot partition, even
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 17:52:28 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:26:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Oh, and do you know why the handbook now says to include a tiny grub
partition before the boot partition, even on an MBR system?
If you use GPT on a motherboard with BIOS,
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 00:39:56 + (UTC), James wrote:
Um, we can think out of the box for a new and cool installation
semantic. Just look at blueness's posting (Gentoo Reference System) on
www.gentoo.org as a new, and useful approach to installs for
established gentoo admins.
That's
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 7:57 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Rich0 said he'd modify the handbook into an experimental prose that
leads to a raid-1 btrfs baseline system, if enough folks liked the ideas.
Just to clarify - I intend to do it, full stop. I don't want to
generate some
On 05/08/2015 16:27, Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2015-08-05, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/08/2015 20:30, Felix Miata wrote:
Seriously, more than a day?
Bwahahahaha! You are too funny!
THREE WEEKS is not uncommon for this. I am not joking. Remember, I
have done it, and so
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Grant Edwards
grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-08-05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 23:28:25 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
The Gentoo instructions look competent enough to do well for most of the
people it's designed for, if
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 10:43:28 Rich Freeman wrote:
Just to humor you I'll include an OpenRC version of my raid1 btrfs
install walkthrough. :) It has been a while since I've done one of
those...
Me too please, Rich. I still haven't got this six-year-old MBR box to boot
raid1 btrfs.
On Wed, 05 Aug 2015 16:26:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Oh, and do you know why the handbook now says to include a tiny grub
partition before the boot partition, even on an MBR system?
If you use GPT on a motherboard with BIOS, you need that partition.
It's on UEFI systems that you don't
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 14:27:08 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
THREE WEEKS is not uncommon for this. I am not joking. Remember, I
have done it, and so have many others here. It was fun the first
time, now it is just a major PITA
Mostly it just provides an opportunity to prove you're too
On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Wednesday 05 August 2015 10:43:28 Rich Freeman wrote:
Just to humor you I'll include an OpenRC version of my raid1 btrfs
install walkthrough. :) It has been a while since I've done one of
those...
Me too
James wrote:
Felix Miata mrmazda at earthlink.net writes:
1-I just find upgrade processes more enjoyable than inital installations and
their follow-up tedium getting from defaults back to the way I like things
to work.
Now that I've seen several thread responses subsequent to this one,
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 20:59:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
No way on 32-bit Athlon. I have Athlon-XP. Even with distcc to
Core2Duo it takes about 10 days of compilation time to build all
stuff, I'm not counting time to fix all failures here. Well, I have
3000 packages installed...
On Tuesday 04 Aug 2015 18:20:40 Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on
an old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in
multiboot on one HD with 12
On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:20:40 + (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2015-08-04, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote:
That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an
old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot
on one HD with 12
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