@MIck
I have a 1TB seagate disk drive, which I would like to install...
1. Will also have windoze whatever bs it is, since its usage is still in
existence duh! - -
2. Surely Debian the universal OS - will have x86-64 image. - GNOME -
Kernel 3.x. - bash
3. The Ubuntu - will have 32-bit -
On Saturday 03 Dec 2011 16:45:19 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Sat, Dec 03, 2011 at 09:23:48AM -0500, Indi wrote:
About a month or so ago I did an update which seems to have caused
portage to lose the ability to work verbosely.
Ever since it looks like this:
paste
idd@gh:[~]9:07:23 $
On Dec 4, 2011 10:10 AM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
On 12/03/2011 09:48 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
Thanks! Very helpful resources.
You mentioned amavisd-new. What's their relationship? I mean, if I
deploy postscreen, how will it affect amavisd-new?
Postscreen sits in
As far as I know all/most of these OS will interfere with your MBR and
potentially your /boot partition and install their boot code in there. This
is not a problem per se, as long as you are aware of it. Booting from a
LiveCD is all you will need to do to fix things.
Given the number of OS'
On Tuesday 29 Nov 2011 06:51:30 Carlos Sura wrote:
Hello Mates,
I have a new HP laptop i5, this came with Windows 7 pre-installed with HP
quickweb (a tool that let me skype, check my email and navigate Interne,
whitout loading WINDOWS).
I believe that HP are using Splashtop OS to achieve
Am 03.12.2011 10:51, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Am 2011-12-02 16:57, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
Good to hear. Maybe I will give it a try after doing some snapshot of my
/-fs ... quick rollback possible ...
emerged it on my thinkpad. Looks good and feels a bit more performant
here
ah, one more:
Now would be the time to clean up gnome-related config-stuff. I see a
rather long login-time (between entering the password and getting the
started desktop). I also had that under gnome-2 and somehow hoped that
this would magically disappear w/ gnome-3.
What files may I safely
One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time
myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future
for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe
debian that has been around a very long time.
It seemed at one time a year or so ago that
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:44:32 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
It seemed at one time a year or so ago that gentoo's longevity was
questionable. (Possibly my own mis-perception)
The discussions about Gentoo's imminent demise are an annual tradition.
For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that
The default behaviour for mkisofs is to display detailed progress
information and a summary at the end. I don't want the progress
information but do want the summary, but the -quiet argument suppresses
both. Is there a way of telling mkisofs to omit only the progress
information or am I forced to
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +, Mick wrote:
Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge portage,
etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from emerge
anymore no matter what. Other than that everything is working fine, but
I do need to see
At distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86
I see 10.1, 11.0, 11.2
Which is the latest usable?
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time
myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future
for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe
debian that has
Harry Putnam wrote:
At distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86
I see 10.1, 11.0, 11.2
Which is the latest usable?
11.2 should work. I haven't tested it but it should be fine. It will
also have less to update too.
Dale
:-) :-)
--
I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you
Harry Putnam wrote:
One point no one has mentioned and I've wondered from time to time
myself is whether one can expect gentoo to continue into the future
for a long while, as compared to the likely hood of opensuse or maybe
debian that has been around a very long time.
It seemed at one time a
I have used 11.2. It works fine.
Linux Blog: http://xtreme-linux.blogspot.com/
Fedora Blog: http://xtreme-fedora.blogspot.com/
My Blog: http://sharedonweb.blogspot.com/
On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Harry Putnam wrote:
At
meino.cramer at gmx.de writes:
is there a way to list all -- for exmaple -- audio related
applications without without being burried under audio related
system libs for example or entries with (also as an exmaple)
this application does not supprt audio but only imageing
So the easy thing
On Sunday 04 Dec 2011 14:05:29 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
On Sun, Dec 04, 2011 at 08:27:33AM +, Mick wrote:
Remerged python, verified the right python via eselect, remerge
portage, etc etc etc etc I just can't seem to get proper output from
emerge anymore no matter what. Other than
Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com writes:
At distfiles.gentoo.org/releases/x86
I see 10.1, 11.0, 11.2
Which is the latest usable?
I have always just burned the latest install dvd,
to take shopping and boot up potential computers
and have a spin, right in the store.
The last HP laptop I
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:55:28 +
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every
thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it
happens again and again at most updates.
If the OP had read so little about
Installing fresh gentoo in guest vm on win7
Before I even try to configure a kernel, because I've been down this
road a few times, and so far have always had trouble getting a kernel
config that boots first time on gentoo vm.
The vm is a gentoo guest installed with Vbox on windows 7.
Its been
Dear All,
Has anybody experienced that the Chrome browser is able to eat all of
memory? I have this issue on both Linux and Win 7 as well. I assume
flash could be the main issue. However, facebook, gmail and g+ eat
more than 100 MByte memory.
It's annoying...
--
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-- Csanyi Andras (Sayusi
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 13:55:28 +
Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
For the OP, a few posters have mentioned that under gentoo, every
thing is compiled from scratch, but it was not made clear that it
happens again and again at most updates.
If the OP had read so
Hi,
how can I permanently and for all times and resistant against all kind
of updates disable the function cleanup_tmp_dir() in
/etc/init.d/bootmisc and similiar function, which automatically kill
files???
best regards,
mcc
Well I now have it all completely working and dumped my findings here:
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/HOWTO_Gnome_3
Hopefully it helps the next person coming to Gnome 3 from a fresh install.
On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com wrote:
I was getting that error
Dale writes:
No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to someone who
has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking back, I was one
heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to be fools luck that I
got it done. Then again, the docs were, and still are,
On Dec 4, 2011 11:40 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Installing fresh gentoo in guest vm on win7
Before I even try to configure a kernel, because I've been down this
road a few times, and so far have always had trouble getting a kernel
config that boots first time on gentoo vm.
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:47:40 +0100
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
how can I permanently and for all times and resistant against all kind
of updates disable the function cleanup_tmp_dir() in
/etc/init.d/bootmisc and similiar function, which automatically kill
files???
In
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:16:19 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to
someone who has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking
back, I was one heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to
be fools luck
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:16:19 +0100
Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote:
No flames from me. I agree. I wouldn't recommend Gentoo to
someone who has no, or even very little, Linux experience. Looking
back, I was one heck of a noob when I installed Gentoo. It had to
be fools luck
111204 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 17:47:40 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
how can I permanently disable the function cleanup_tmp_dir()
in /etc/init.d/bootmisc and similiar function ?
... why ? The whole point of /tmp is a scratch pad
where files are not expected to survive
grab my 3.0.2 virtualbox config [1] and do make oldconfig on it
[1]: http://codepad.org/QreqHSMs
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 4, 2011 11:40 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Installing fresh gentoo in guest vm on win7
Before I even try to configure a kernel, because I've been down this
road a few times, and so far have always had trouble getting a kernel
Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com writes:
grab my 3.0.2 virtualbox config [1] and do make oldconfig on it
[1]: http://codepad.org/QreqHSMs
Thank you.. that is exactly what I was after... I'll be trying it out
in the next few hours.
On new install, first attempt at kernel build.
I hit this same old problem that was here mnths ago:
usr/src/linux-3.1.14-gentoo/scripts/gen_initramfs_list.sh: Cannot open
`/usr/share/v86d/initramfs [...] initramfs.cpio] Error 1
I know that one way to fix it is to emerge v86d which I am now
On Sunday, December 4, 2011 9:20:02 PM UTC+2, Harry Putnam wrote:
Leho Kraav le...@kraav.com writes:
grab my 3.0.2 virtualbox config [1] and do make oldconfig on it
[1]: http://codepad.org/QreqHSMs
Thank you.. that is exactly what I was after... I'll be trying it out
in the next few
On Sun, 2011-12-04 at 17:36 +0100, András Csányi wrote:
Has anybody experienced that the Chrome browser is able to eat all of
memory? I have this issue on both Linux and Win 7 as well. I assume
flash could be the main issue. However, facebook, gmail and g+ eat
more than 100 MByte memory.
Leho Kraav l...@kraav.com writes:
On Sunday, December 4, 2011 9:20:02 PM UTC+2, Harry Putnam wrote:
Leho Kraav le...@kraav.com writes:
grab my 3.0.2 virtualbox config [1] and do make oldconfig on it
[1]: http://codepad.org/QreqHSMs
Thank you.. that is exactly what I was after...
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:37:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
An equally good question is does this person right now asking me a
question have what it takes to dive into Gentoo blindly, and swim?
The other question is do I have time to keep diving in to rescue this
person when they get out of their
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 15:18:40 +, Mick wrote:
But then if there were say 5 ebuilds running in parallel and all their
output printed in the same terminal, it would be almightily difficult
to untangle the spaghetti that may show up in an error?
Which is why setting -j 1 sets wh
--
Neil
If I wanted to enable something during an emerge using ECONF to add a
./configure option... what is the proper syntax?
I want to enable rootcommit for cvs. I thought I remembered something
like:
ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' USE='server' emerge -v cvs
But when I watch that run I see
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
If I wanted to enable something during an emerge using ECONF to add a
./configure option... what is the proper syntax?
I want to enable rootcommit for cvs. I thought I remembered something
like:
ECONF='--enable-rootcommit' USE='server' emerge -v
Hi,
I have just upgraded Firefox from 7 to 8 and after that I was unable to
hear the sound of videoclips from YouTube, for instance.
I remember there was a little trick to make past versions of FF to work
with pulse audio (that I use so VirtualBox machines can also play sounds),
but can't find
Fresh install of gentoo as guest vm on win7
Configured kernel, fdisked like so:
/dev/sda1 boot
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 /
set boot as bootable
emerged various things...
emerged grub and ran it
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0,0)
bla bla
[...]
succeeded
Edited fstab
/dev/sda1
On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:53:40 -0600
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Fresh install of gentoo as guest vm on win7
Configured kernel, fdisked like so:
/dev/sda1 boot
/dev/sda2 swap
/dev/sda3 /
set boot as bootable
emerged various things...
emerged grub and ran it
grub
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:45:26 +
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2011 19:37:27 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
An equally good question is does this person right now asking me a
question have what it takes to dive into Gentoo blindly, and swim?
The other question is
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:11:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
The other question is do I have time to keep diving in to rescue this
person when they get out of their depth. When you recommend Gentoo,
you also volunteer to provide support.
I was going to mention something like that too. But
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup. Let's
examine the host settings first as that affects booting too.
What settings do you have on the System and Storage tabs on the VBox
host for that vm?
I guess the easiest
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup. Let's
examine the host settings first as that affects booting too.
What settings do you have on the System and Storage tabs on the
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup. Let's
examine the host settings first as that affects booting
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup. Let's
examine the host
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:01:57 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 8:01 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
Yes it is, and its missing because I have no idea what it wants. Do
you?
I'm still on my way to the office, so I can't
On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
That's a BIOS error, the vm's kernel and it's drivers have not yet been
loaded, never mind running when that happens. In this respect a VM
works just like physical hardware, so what does one do with
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but when try to transfer the data
base:
pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/ --new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data
--old-bindir=/usr/lib/postgresql-9.0/bin/
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
when try to transfer the data
base:
pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/
--new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data
On Dec 5, 2011 8:35 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Harry
On 12/05/11 13:37, Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, Joseph wrote:
I'm upgrading form posgresql 9.0 to 9.1, it seem to the upgrade went OK but
when try to transfer the data
base:
pg_upgrade91 -v --old-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.0/data/
--new-datadir=/var/lib/postgresql/9.1/data
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
Just before emerging the source, you really should tarball *everything*
(except /proc, /sys, /var/tmp/*, and /usr/portage/distfiles/*), so you can
just 'pick up where you left it' :-)
That's almost as slow as starting over from scratch... hehe.
On Dec 5, 2011 10:42 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes:
Just before emerging the source, you really should tarball *everything*
(except /proc, /sys, /var/tmp/*, and /usr/portage/distfiles/*), so you
can
just 'pick up where you left it' :-)
On Monday 05 Dec 2011 01:25:06 Harry Putnam wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
That's a BIOS error, the vm's kernel and it's drivers have not yet been
loaded, never mind running when that happens. In this respect a VM
I haven't yet needed to do this kind of system monitoring, so I'm very
much a newbie here.
Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark emerge
-e @world, figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS variables, and assume I'd like to get more
On Monday 05 December 2011 07:29:34 Michael Mol wrote:
I haven't yet needed to do this kind of system monitoring, so I'm very
much a newbie here.
Let's start with that dual-xeon box I was using to benchmark emerge
-e @world, figure I'm looking for how better to tune my MAKEOPTS and
When I try to mount my mp3-player as usb storage device, an error 'bad
block device' occurs. I re-checked usb part of kernel config, all
relevant devices compiled. where should I dig?
some diagnostics
lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:20:22 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote:
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