Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 11:24 Mon 16 Apr , Will Briggs wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > > Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��&j)b� bst== > > I wasn't going to respond. But it's my birthday today - 2^5 = 32 baby! > (Using gentoo since 2004.

[gentoo-user] floppy flops: further tests

2007-04-15 Thread Philip Webb
Thanks to all whom offered advice re using file managers with diskettes. I changed the line in /etc/fstab to '/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,umask=000 0 0'. The results were the same: Krusader insisted on being root to do anything; Thunar copied & deleted a file ok & was a bit faster th

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: > > > Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I > > > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they ar

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote: > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: > > Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I > > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there. I > > did emerge --regen but still no luck. The make.conf within l

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Will Briggs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��&j)b� bst== I wasn't going to respond. But it's my birthday today - 2^5 = 32 baby! (Using gentoo since 2004.3) W. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread Rostislav
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: > Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there. I > did emerge --regen but still no luck. The make.conf within layman no > longer has them, but where is the information

[gentoo-user] unreadable text in tty's after updating to 2.6.19-r5

2007-04-15 Thread Nico
Hi list. I've a strange problem here. I've updated my gentoo from a 4 months offline and so I did recompile many stuffs. However, when I update the kernel from 2.6.18-r2 to 2.6.19-r5, my tty's console (ALT + CTRL + Fx) are all unreadable. I can see like in an encrypted tv channel, but i can launc

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread John covici
Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there. I did emerge --regen but still no luck. The make.conf within layman no longer has them, but where is the information still retained? Thanks. -- Your life is like a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-15 Thread Dale
Jesús Guerrero wrote: > El Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:37:54 -0500 > Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > >> Norberto Bensa wrote: >> >>> Daniel da Veiga wrote: >>> I can use Knoppix or Ubuntu, but that's not the point. >>> >> Maybe some are not understanding the point he is making. If I

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Alan E. Davis
I'm 60. Gentoo since November 2005. I was first exposed to the *nix concept through the DOS compiled Unix utilities produced by the FSF in about 1992 or 3. Once I returned to civilization from a remote Pacific island, where I was using the *nix text tools for a lexicon project, I had to have Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] laptop sometimes needs double keystrokes

2007-04-15 Thread Roger Mason
Hi Benno, Benno Schulenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But you don't need to do this as you've already found that the > problem is in bash and it's related to something in the environment. > If the PS1 didn't fix it, try with either just --norc or just > --noprofile to try and narrow things

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Walker
Elias Probst wrote: I'm going to raise the 20th amplitude even more: age-22 Well, I'll do my bit to restore the balance. ;) I'm 56. Been around computers since 1969 and my first home system was a self-build based on a DEC LSI 11/23 processor running RT11. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Mike Markowski wrote: Tony Stohne wrote: hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list. I'm 44... I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then. I remember being told not to run 'vi' when too man

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of [EMAIL PROTECTED] issue 1150 (62678-62727)

2007-04-15 Thread Theodorou Kyriakos
unsubricde - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 3:01 PM Subject: Digest of [EMAIL PROTECTED] issue 1150 (62678-62727) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Mike Markowski
Tony Stohne wrote: > hehe, there are some experienced guys (& gals?) on the list. > I'm 44... I'm also 44, have been using Unix since 1981 and still have my hardback book on the PDP 11/70 and my K&R C book from then. I remember being told not to run 'vi' when too many people were on because it wo

[gentoo-user] Xen Doc compilation failed => latex2html pb

2007-04-15 Thread galevsky
Call stack: ebuild.sh, line 1614: Called dyn_compile ebuild.sh, line 971: Called qa_call 'src_compile' environment, line 3633: Called src_compile xen-tools-3.0.2-r4.ebuild, line 147: Called die !!! compiling docs failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, a

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-15 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:37:54 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > Norberto Bensa wrote: > > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > I can use Knoppix or Ubuntu, but that's not the point. > > Maybe some are not understanding the point he is making. If I > understand correctly, he needs a newer release

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Elias Probst
On Sunday 15 April 2007 14:36:16 b.n. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > > Notice the sharp drop after 27 years of age and the second irregular > distribution around 43-45. I wait for interpretations. I'm going to raise the 20th amplitude even more: eliasp ~ # genlop -c * life-base/age-22

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile USE flags

2007-04-15 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:54:34 +0100 Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know how euse works (and do use it). What I am more interested in is > why the profile maintainers decided that an existing (for example > 'kerberos') flag should now be enabled by default in x86/2007.0/desktop > when i

Re: [gentoo-user] 2007.0's profile?

2007-04-15 Thread William Kenworthy
Its not the profile, but a new liveCD I would like to see. Its a pita to have to use a fedora or other up-to-date liveCD because gentoo's wont handle the newer hardware (Two Dells, last one a 745) BillK On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 07:04 +0200, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Sonntag, 15. April 200

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile USE flags

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Graham Murray, > I know how euse works (and do use it). What I am more interested in is > why the profile maintainers decided that an existing (for example > 'kerberos') flag should now be enabled by default in x86/2007.0/desktop > when it was not enabled in previous profiles. There are Cha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-15 Thread b.n.
Marc Blumentritt ha scritto: Then create a tarball from it. You could call this tarball a stage4 tarball, because it is a complete system (compared to a stage3 tarball). To create the tarball, leave the chroot an run something like this: tar -cjvpf /stage4.tar.bz2 /path/to/your/chroot Boot you

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile USE flags

2007-04-15 Thread Graham Murray
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Graham Murray wrote: >> I have just looked at the 2007.0 profile and have seen that extra USE >> flags have been added. Is there any source of information on the >> reasoning behind USE flags being added to and removed from profiles? >> Knowing the reasons for sp

Re: [gentoo-user] Network device name changes every reboot

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Rennie deGraaf, > I'm running Gentoo x86/2006.1 inside a User-Mode Linux disk image, > created according to the instructions at > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_User_Mode_Linux, with kernel 2.6.20.7 from > kernel.org. The first time I booted my UML system, networking worked > properly. The n

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Thomas T. Veldhouse, > > a) gentoo is not about releases. > > > I understand that. BUT ... it was announced long ago that there was a > quarterly release plan starting in 2005. It was followed for only one > year? That's right. It was quickly discovered that forcing a quarterly rel

Re: [gentoo-user] Profile USE flags

2007-04-15 Thread Dale
Graham Murray wrote: > I have just looked at the 2007.0 profile and have seen that extra USE > flags have been added. Is there any source of information on the > reasoning behind USE flags being added to and removed from profiles? > Knowing the reasons for specific flags being added or removed from

[gentoo-user] Profile USE flags

2007-04-15 Thread Graham Murray
I have just looked at the 2007.0 profile and have seen that extra USE flags have been added. Is there any source of information on the reasoning behind USE flags being added to and removed from profiles? Knowing the reasons for specific flags being added or removed from the profile would help make

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Peter Weller
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:07:35 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone [Error decoding BASE64] I'm 16. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is the latest release 2006.1?

2007-04-15 Thread Jarry
Norberto Bensa wrote: Just get any old version (that works), That's the point. None works. The media needs kernel 2.6.18 or better. I had the similar experience: tried to install 2006.1 on new mobo, but sata controller could not be recognised (some via chpiset iirc). Had to buy extra some p-