[gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 07 May 2008 17:16:01 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> >> Why not put ext* or reiserfs or whatever on such a drive? >> > >> > Because you need to access it from Windows too? >> >> To a backup device? Why? > > Don't Windows users need to back

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk upgrade sanity check pls

Am Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Adam Carter: > I'm running out of disk space on my laptop and the new disk arrived > today. > > Old setup; 60 gig drive; > /dev/hda1 = /home (used to be windows, hence the partition number) > /dev/hda2 = swap > /dev/hda3 = / > > New setup; 250 gig drive > /dev

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: tar a brand new Gentoo install to a USB drive for safe keeping?

Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 06 May 2008 14:40:08 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> > That hasn't been needed for a long time. Tar is able to detect bzip2 >> > and gzip compression and handle it automatically. >> >> That's only true for GNU tar. If you're also dealing wit

[gentoo-user] emerge-delta-webrsync fails

Hi folks, I use emerge-delta-webrsync. I get an md5 error for snapshot-20080501-20080502.patch.bz2 for a couple of days now. Anybody in the know what is going on? Uwe -- Ignorance killed the cat, sir, curiosity was framed! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

Hello. I have the file server which exports /usr/portage/ via smbfs. It is mounted in following way. /dev/xxx to /usr/portage (~512M) /dev/yyy to /usr/portage/distfiles (~10G, 7G currently free) I'm mounting smb://fs/portage/ to /usr/portage (rw) on my clients, and when I'm trying to fetch huge p

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > Hello. > > I have the file server which exports /usr/portage/ via smbfs. It is > mounted in following way. > /dev/xxx to /usr/portage (~512M) > /dev/yyy to /usr/portage/distfiles (~10G, 7G currently free) > > I'm mounting smb://fs/portage/ to /usr/

[gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this. Is there a possibility to reinstall all p

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

Matthias Fechner schrieb: Hi, I tried today to build vim but it fails. Now I want to make sure all packages needed by vim are installed correctly. To do this I decided to reinstall all packages need be vim. I checked the man page of emerge but could not found an option for this. Is there a pos

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: emerge --emptytree vim I think this will be too much!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

On Wed, 07 May 2008 21:52:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > I'm not using Gmail, I'm using a bellsouth address. I also noticed > that when I go to the webmail address for my email, it switches to > att.net now. I think AT&T is in the process of switching stuff over or > something. For those not in the U

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On Thu, 8 May 2008 12:28:57 +0400, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > I have the file server which exports /usr/portage/ via smbfs. It is > mounted in following way. > /dev/xxx to /usr/portage (~512M) > /dev/yyy to /usr/portage/distfiles (~10G, 7G currently free) > > I'm mounting smb://fs/portage/ to /usr

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

emerge --emptytree vim That will (re)install *everything* directly or indirectly needed to have vim. HTH, Abraham Abraham Marín Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Responsable de I+D SILVANO CONSULTORES Tfno.: 93.412.79.12 -- Fax: 93.410.92.90 http://www.silvanoc.com/ Este mensaje, incluyendo sus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > >> To a backup device? Why? > > > > Don't Windows users need to backup? > > No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. Why? You could equally be saying that Linux users don't need to backup to a drive used for Windows

Re: [gentoo-user] back up gentoo system

2008/5/6 David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi, > >I was thinking on making regular backup of my gentoo partition. I'm not > interested in incremental backups, just a mirror image of the root > filesystem. I've prepared some scripts using dd for the first copy and > rsync to keep it updated

[gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

Hi again, I have gotten a few replies off list about this issue and found out that I am not the only one having this problem. It seems the AT&T family does not like TLSv1 messages or something. I wrote AT&T a message and am waiting on a reply regarding this. If someone here knows how to fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have gotten a few replies off list about this issue and found out > that I am not the only one having this problem. It seems the AT&T > family does not like TLSv1 messages or something. The sending MTA should not be using TLS unless the receiving system adve

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Dale wrote: > Is there a way to reply with a web browser? Personally, I just use a gmail account for all my mailing list needs. I got fed up having to change my subscribed address every so often so started using my gmail account instead. You always know exactly how it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 08 May 2008 09:55:50 +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote: > > >> To a backup device? Why? > > > > > > Don't Windows users need to backup? > > > > No. Not to a drive used for backups of Linux machines. > > Why? You could equally be saying that Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:21:28 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > uuh. Are you sharing your toothbrush too? Only when the battery goes flat in mine and I can't be bothered looking for more, and only then when she isn't looking :) On the other hand, sharing storage space makes a lot of sense. --

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 08 May 2008, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I have the file server which exports /usr/portage/ via smbfs. It is > > mounted in following way. > > /dev/xxx to /usr/portage (~512M) > > /dev/yyy t

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Vladimir Rusinov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -//fs/portage512M 238M 275M 47% /var/lib/greenmice +//fs/portage512M 238M 275M 47% /usr/portage Sorry, this chunk of temporary solution. -- Vladimir Rusinov Voronezh, Russia UNIX Admin @ Murano Sof

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On Thu, 8 May 2008 17:47:55 +0400, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: > So you see, //fs/portage/ has only ~250 Mb free space, but there are a > lot of space in distfiles (and It is not emergency it distfiles would > be 100% used). > Is there any way to tell the portage "Turn it off, I know what I'm > doing"

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

On Donnerstag, 8. Mai 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 8 May 2008 13:21:28 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > uuh. Are you sharing your toothbrush too? > > Only when the battery goes flat in mine and I can't be bothered looking > for more, and only then when she isn't looking :) > > On the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Re: Re: back up gentoo system

On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:00:49 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On the other hand, sharing storage space makes a lot of sense. > > until someone accidentally deletes an important backup from the other > one ;) You don't think I'd trust anyone else with the backups, do you? ;-) -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] 'Insufficient space to store' on a network share

On 8 May 2008, at 09:28, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: ... I have the file server which exports /usr/portage/ via smbfs. It is mounted in following way. /dev/xxx to /usr/portage (~512M) /dev/yyy to /usr/portage/distfiles (~10G, 7G currently free) You might be better using NFS, instead. Stroller. --

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Mike Williams wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008 10:43:30 Robin Atwood wrote: > > > Taken, sucessfully, from > > > http://mikearthur.co.uk/2007/12/konqueror-with-latest-adobe-flash-howto > > >/ > > > > Thanks for the link. I tried it and although the kmplayer plugin now > >

[gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

Hi, This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest. I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing of hard drives. I have the program in two forms: 1) A bootable CD that just runs the program 2) A stand alone DOS executable that can be run from a CD. Both

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest. > >I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing > of hard drives. I have the program in two forms: > > 1) A bootable CD that just runs the program

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:28 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hi, >>This is somewhat off topic. Ignore if it's of no interest. >> >>I've got a DOS program called SpinRite that does low-level testing >> of hard drives. I

[gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2

Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these machines? James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem

isba alain # emerge -uD world returns the following: Calculating world dependencies / !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been !!! pulled into the dependency graph: net-print/foomatic-db-ppds:0 ('installed', '/', 'net-print/foomatic-db-ppds-20060720', 'nomerge') pulled in

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 17:03 +, James wrote: > Hello, > > I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. > > Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? > > If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these > machines? > > > James > > > The P2 should b

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2

2008 is still in beta, but it should still work. I'd use 2007.0. Also, i sure hope you have a box setup for distcc. compiling gentoo on these old/slow procs could take days. deface On May 8, 2008, at 12:03 PM, James wrote: Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class m

Re: [gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > isba alain # emerge -uD world > returns the following: > > Calculating world dependencies / > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been > !!! pulled into the dependency graph: > > net-print/foomatic-db-ppds:0 >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem

On Thursday 08 May 2008, Andrey Falko wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 1:34 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What should I do? May I get rid of foomatic package without gettindg > > into trouble with cups? > > I guess I have to fill a bug report... > > I would try the following first: > > emer

[gentoo-user] Re: grub weirdness

On Wed, 07 May 2008 12:13:47 +0200 Sven Köhler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To avoid automounting and autoinstalling with /boot, > > just export the DONT_MOUNT_BOOT variable. > > Which /boot partition? I don't have any ... I believe you've already avoided it being mounted, then. :) -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] What version of netscape-flash to use with konqueror?

On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On 5/5/08, Robin Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have just brought my laptop (x86 arch) up to date and so I have KDE > > 3.5.9 and netscape-flash-9.0.124.0. Now whenever I go to a web page with > > embedded flash I get a segfault. I seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hey. I like old fashioned. > > How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is > the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started. Is that > visible copying the root of the drive? (I'm at a Windows box as I >

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hey. I like old fashioned. >> >> How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is >> the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started

[gentoo-user] Re: Is the mailing list working?

Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to reply with a web browser? I can view the messages > on the archives but can not figure out how to reply. As long as you're subscribed, you can reply via the web interface(s). Using the blog-like i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 09:52 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> Hey. I like old fashioned. >> >> How does that handle the 'bootable' part of the CD? I presume there is >> the equivalent of an MBR on a CD so the PC can get started

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

Albert Hopkins wrote: > I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW > RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't > supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm finding: * Intern

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

Roy Wright wrote: Albert Hopkins wrote: I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular "fake" HW RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't supported by the kernel. Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I had hoped. I'm fi

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Well if it's El Torito you just point mkisofs to the boot image. But > > since you say it's a DOS CD, who knows. > > > > -a > > Can you clarify what you mea

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

>It's a boot (floppy image) that's not part of the ISO filesystem per se. >A quick 'Net search shows you might be able to do this following >http://kiss.molteni.net/ >I tried that on an Open Solaris ISO and got: >$ isoinfo -d -i os200805.iso >CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format >

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash when playing flash

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 09:49:01PM +0800, Qi Baobin wrote: > Thanks, but it still doesn't work for me. For me it worked, however what is the best place to export the variable? I now placed it in /usr/bin/firefox, however that will be replaced with every new FF. Henk, > > On 09:12 Thu 10 Apr

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Reading, editing and then burning a new ISO image using Gentoo

On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:49 PM, Albert Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >$ isoinfo -d -i os200805.iso Great stuff. Thanks. OK, using your command but changing it to the drive itself I got this: ~ # isoinfo -d dev=/dev/hdb CD-ROM is in ISO 9660 format System id: LINUX Volume id: Free

Re: [gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem

On Thursday 08 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > isba alain # emerge -uD world > returns the following: > > Calculating world dependencies / > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been > !!! pulled into the dependency graph: > > net-print/foomatic-db-ppds:0 > Look at the vers

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

Hi Justin, Justin schrieb: Provide ous some more information about how vim fails. Runtime, build or what failure you get. ok here you are: :) /usr/lib/python2.4/config/libpython2.4.a(posixmodule.o): In function `posix_tmpnam': (.text+0x94e): warning: the use of `tmpnam_r' is dangerous, bette

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2

On Thu, 8 May 2008 at 5:03pm -, James wrote: Hello, I have an assortment of p1, p2 and old amd K6 (586) class machines. Do the 2008.0 iso beta 2 cover this arch? If not, what is the recommend minimal cd to use to install these machines? James

Re: [gentoo-user] installation cd for P1 & P2

I'd recommend 2007 based on the below. I put 2007.0 on my PII 233 last fall. It does take a while, but it really didn't take that much longer than my AMD64 build - though, I don't think I put KDE on it, which I did on the AMD64. YMMV. FYI - you can always upgrade the 2007 profile to 2008. I ju

[gentoo-user] Best anti-virus

I am currently using the clamv anti-virus program. I was wondering if there is a better one for Gentoo, especially one that integrates well with Thunderbird. That has been my one disappointment with clamav. Not necessarily clamav's fault since T/B maintains its emails in one long file. Tony --

Re: [gentoo-user] Is the mailing list working?

Alan McKinnon wrote: Personally, I just use a gmail account for all my mailing list needs. I got fed up having to change my subscribed address every so often so started using my gmail account instead. You always know exactly how it's going to want authentication, you can read mail in a browse

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Looking for SATA controller recommendation

Roy Wright wrote: Howdy, I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5 media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum requ

[gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub>

I've done a new install this evening. The install went OK as far as I could tell. I didn't wipe the disk but I did make new file systems using mke2fs for both /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7. I then installed NT in /dev/hda0 and finally did Gentoo. The grub-0.97-r5 install seemed to go OK, however when I b

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall all packages needed by vim

* If the above messages seem to be talking about perl * and undefined references, please try re-emerging both * perl and libperl with the same USE flags. For more * information, see: Try doing what the ebuild is telling you. Re-emerge perl and libperl with the same USE FLAGS * htt

Re: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub>

Am Freitag, 9. Mai 2008 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: > I've done a new install this evening. The install went OK as far as I > could tell. I didn't wipe the disk but I did make new file systems > using mke2fs for both /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7. I then installed NT in > /dev/hda0 and finally did Gentoo.