[gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, portage-2.2.. has been masked. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask tells me why In order to ensure that portage-2.1.6 gets sufficient testing, portage-2.2 will be masked in package.mask until portage-2.1.6 has been marked stable. I feel like someone will try to educate me. Yes, I can and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] unloading wacom module

2008-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 24 Nov, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! After adding wacom bamboo I have a problem: at exiting from X (any DE - KDE, Gnome. fluxbox) DE freezes. I have found in Xorg.log there is a problem of unloading wacom module: Backtrace: 0: X(xf86SigHandler+0x65) [0x482c25] 1: /lib/libc.so.6

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] unloading wacom module

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Monday 24 November 2008 11:18:33 Helmut Jarausch wrote: the kernel module of linuxwacom-0.8.1-6 (http://linuxwacom.sourceforge.net/) I don't have this problem (anymore). Aha, life is nice now :-) Thanks! Do you mean (besides using upstream sources) your kernel config has N for wacom

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/24 Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, portage-2.2.. has been masked. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask tells me why In order to ensure that portage-2.1.6 gets sufficient testing, portage-2.2 will be masked in package.mask until portage-2.1.6 has been marked stable. I feel

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: I will try to explain this a bit from what I know from mailing-lists and IRC. First there are no problems with portage-2.2. It has been masked because some features are not ready and thus are blocking stabilisation. As a conclusion portage-2.1.6 has been branched out

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/24 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter. Supposed to be monthly anyway. I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going quarterly this time. ;-) I do wish they had or would use a announce mailing list to inform people of changes, big ones

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:30 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Sonntag, 23. November 2008 23:31:30 schrieb William Kenworthy: What I would really like is a file system that would unify these spaces and present them to the network as storage space - ideally with redundant data storage so one

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/11/24 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter. Supposed to be monthly anyway. I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going quarterly this time. ;-) I do wish they had or would use a announce mailing list to inform

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dale wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 02:06:04 schrieb Dale: I think it is LVMS or something. Linux volume management system?? I think Redhat calls it EVMS or something. Two things, (more ore less) one purpose: 1) LVM: Logical

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dale wrote: I knew it was something like that. I thought it was networkable but was not sure. You guys sure know more about that than I do. - evms was used for a while by Suse - I don't know if they still do. - there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 11:30:25 schrieb William Kenworthy: By transient storage I mean that the data is duplicated across across physical storage spaces so that if a machine goes down, the data is still available. OK, thanks. I thought Andrews FS did that, but didnt see when looking

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of gail-1000

2008-11-24 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/24 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, from time to time this message pops up after syncing: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4) How can I get rid of gail-1000 finally? This question has been raised some time ago, gail is included in gtk now, thus the

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:07 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 11:30:25 schrieb William Kenworthy: By transient storage I mean that the data is duplicated across across physical storage spaces so that if a machine goes down, the data is still available. OK,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Touchscreen does not react

2008-11-24 Thread Stroller
On 23 Nov 2008, at 22:07, Robert Bridge wrote: ... (http://210.64.17.162/web20/TouchKitDriver/linuxDriver.htm) Please provide URLs by domain name, I will NEVER click on an IP based URL, unless I explicitly trust the provider. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:03:13 schrieb William Kenworthy: Discovered this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#Distributed_file_systems Thats going to keep me busy for awhile! Interesting link. However, NFS, SMB, AFP and NCP are NOT distributed filesystems. They're

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the next 15 years or so, you'll have to be patient. I for one wait for btrfs. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Nov 2008, at 11:07, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... If you have further questions, feel free to ask. I would love a file system that transparently replicates over several systems - say 2 - 5. It doesn't need to amalgamate spare in any way (as BillK requests), let's just say I just have

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 12:35 +, Stroller wrote: On 24 Nov 2008, at 11:07, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: ... If you have further questions, feel free to ask. I would love a file system that transparently replicates over several systems - say 2 - 5. It doesn't need to amalgamate spare in

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:35:25 schrieb Stroller: I suspect I would be optimistic if I hoped for something so   sophisticated to be readily available, as I am aware that this would   be problematic to implement. But do you have any suggestions? Maybe Coda. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the next 15 years or so, you'll have to be patient. I for one wait for btrfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:44:06 schrieb William Kenworthy: I set up an openmosix cluster once using dfs I think. It replicated data just like you want so each exported thread was seeing consistent file space. It did work, but had a few issues ... I think it was designed by MS being

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:49:38 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to run dhclient on the background

2008-11-24 Thread damian
I had a similar problem with my machine when I first started using Gentoo, but I then discovered sys-apps/netplug. Install that and all should be well. You might want to check your RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING variable (in /etc/conf.d/rc) is the way you want it, but otherwise there isn't any extra

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 13:50 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:44:06 schrieb William Kenworthy: I set up an openmosix cluster once using dfs I think. It replicated data just like you want so each exported thread was seeing consistent file space. It did work,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:49:38 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 14:49:38 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will survive.  I'm waiting on reiserfs4 to go stable.  ;-) Well, with its inventor being imprisoned for the next

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 13:07:34 Dale wrote: I used to be subscribed to the mailing list, thought about using one or the other.  Just before I unsubscribed, there were some people trying to get it back up and going.  I'm not sure how that went or if it is still being worked on or not.  It

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 11:58:41 Dale wrote: Of course, there is the Gentoo monthly newsletter.  Supposed to be monthly anyway.  I haven't seen one in a while so it may be going quarterly this time.  ;-) Oh, you mean the GAN? As in Gentoo Annual Newsletter? I understand why it's irregular

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:15:46 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, portage-2.2.. has been masked. /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask tells me why In order to ensure that portage-2.1.6 gets sufficient testing, portage-2.2 will be masked in package.mask until portage-2.1.6 has been marked

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 08:28:33 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: @William: If one or more of the PVs is a Network Block Device, you're not bound to the local machine. I'd never thought of that, but it makes sense. PV wants a raw block device and couldn't care less if it leads to local disk or

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread GMail
On Monday 24 November 2008 07:58:55 Roy Wright wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the

[gentoo-user] 'halt' turns power off sometimes only

2008-11-24 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Why? In use: - up to date ~amd64, - ASUS P5B-VM motherboard, - ... (something else?) Andrew

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
GMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 24 November 2008 13:07:34 Dale wrote: I used to be subscribed to the mailing list, thought about using one or the other.  Just before I unsubscribed, there were some people trying to get it back up and going.  I'm not sure how that went or if it is

[gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Davison
Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. Playman -l does not show it.. -- BigTone

[gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

2008-11-24 Thread BRM
I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection drops every once in a while, and the system doesn't detect it. A

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Stroller
On 24 Nov 2008, at 14:12, GMail wrote: On Monday 24 November 2008 07:58:55 Roy Wright wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 15:12:00 schrieb GMail: How does it cope with network outages though? In my experience, LVM is not exactly graceful when one of it's PVs goes away Don't know. I just know it's possible but never did it myself. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

2008-11-24 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 9:42 AM, BRM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Dell D600 Laptop that I've got Gentoo installed on. It pretty much uses Gentoo full-time now. (Yeah!) I very frequently use the Wireless with it, which works great for the most part. However, it seems that the connection

Re: [gentoo-user] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:55 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: If you have further questions, feel free to ask. One smalll thing to add: If you decide to use it, there's a Howto under http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/OpenAFS. Do NOT use the one from gentoo.org, it's old, outdated and partly

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: W.Kenworthy wrote: On Sun, 2008-11-23 at 19:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Kobboi wrote: On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 07:31 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: Currently I have around 3 terrabytes of storage across a number of gentoo machines (4 at the moment) - at

Re: [gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. Playman -l does not show it.. http://paludis-extras.org

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 14:50:30 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: he is not - but after the invention is implemented, the inventor is not needed anymore ;) Yes, that's right. Bye... Dirk

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Joerg Schilling
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: he is not - but after the invention is implemented, the inventor is not needed anymore ;) I hope this is not the reason for putting him into prison ;-) Note the sign at the Springfield prison: If you commited murder, you'd be home by now.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT (a bit) finding overlay

2008-11-24 Thread Tony Davison
On Monday 24 November 2008 15:30:46 Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tony Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to find the paludis-extras overlay. Playman -l does not show it.. http://paludis-extras.org Thanks Worked it out now -- BigTone

[gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Christian
Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. log-file: http://rafb.net/p/CDrW9430.html env-file: http://rafb.net/p/xvDA5Z82.html emerge-info: http://rafb.net/p/mlNnia81.html Can anyone help me? Best regards Christian I got the

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Justin
Christian schrieb: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. log-file: http://rafb.net/p/CDrW9430.html env-file: http://rafb.net/p/xvDA5Z82.html emerge-info: http://rafb.net/p/mlNnia81.html Can anyone help me? You

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Christian
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 schrieb Justin: Christian schrieb: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. log-file: http://rafb.net/p/CDrW9430.html env-file: http://rafb.net/p/xvDA5Z82.html emerge-info:

[gentoo-user] openssh and lpk-patch

2008-11-24 Thread Evgeniy Bushkov
Hi, After last openssh' update to net-misc/openssh-5.1_p1-r1 it doesn't work for me. I had used lpk- configuration file' options. Does lpk-patch exist in last release' code? I've just rolled back to openssh-4.7_p1-r6. My use flags: USE=ldap pam tcpd -X -X509 -hpn -kerberos -libedit

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. is there a good reason to use acient drivers?

[gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel, compiz, mplayer -fs file.avi freeze

2008-11-24 Thread Kacper Kopczyński
I have a MSI Wind U100 netbook. I'm using xfce with compiz-fusion. When I try to start mplayer -fs file.avi the Xserver freezes. It also freezes when the logout window of xfce, that gray transparent background, tries to show 3 buttons (logout, restart, poweroff). I can only move mouse cursor.

Re: [gentoo-user] ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Jacques Montier
Christian a gentiment tapote: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. log-file: http://rafb.net/p/CDrW9430.html env-file: http://rafb.net/p/xvDA5Z82.html emerge-info: http://rafb.net/p/mlNnia81.html Can anyone help me?

[gentoo-user] qtiplot

2008-11-24 Thread b.n.
Hi, I have an x86 gentoo system, and I would like to install qtiplot. Unfortunately: - qtiplot 0.8.x requires qwt-4. I have both qwt-4 and qwt-5 installed, and when compilng qtiplot seems to pick invariably the qwt-5. How do I force qtiplot to build with qwt-4 ? - qtiplot 0.9.x requires to

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread b.n.
GMail ha scritto: I ran into this same thing this morning and felt like mailing Zac a piece of my mind. Sanity prevailed though. I still feeling quite deeply offended though that a package maintainer has forced me to jump through a hoop simply because he would like an earlier version to

[gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Arttu V. wrote: On 11/24/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version 8.501 won't compile. is there a good reason to use acient drivers? They're the latest

[gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread damian
Hi, In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching for a lightweight option. Thanks in advance, Damian.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:01 PM, damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching for a lightweight option. I use net-misc/ntp and it seems to work fine. Paul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ati-drivers-8.501 does not compile with kernel gentoo-sources 2.6.26-r3

2008-11-24 Thread Robert Bridge
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 21:14:40 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Arttu V. wrote: On 11/24/08, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Christian wrote: Hi all, I wanted to update my kernel to 2.6.26-r3 today. But the ati-drivers version

[gentoo-user] dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like: title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 root (hd0,0) kernel /kernel-2.6.27-r3 root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x31A

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 13:49:38 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Montag 24 November 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Montag, 24. November 2008 12:07:34 schrieb Dale: Maybe it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking for Educational Purposes only ?

2008-11-24 Thread Arttu V.
On 11/24/08, b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, why? If you want to test 2.2 instead, you can do it. It's not blocking you from anything. Yes, before the change the only thing blocking portage 2.2 was ~arch. Now it requires the bigger tool, Thor's Hammer of Unmasking +5 (+15 against portage

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like: title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 root

Re: [gentoo-user] dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like: title=kernel-2.6.27-r3-0x31a-1280x1024 root (hd0,0) kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 24 November 2008 23:47:14 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with r4+compression.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with r4+compression. Well, it

[gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second doubts about how to dual boot 2 gentoo installations. Can I just edit grub from the original install and add the appropriate kernal line like:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Chris Thomas
It looks fine. You can also press e at the Grub prompt or boot to a live cd if it isn't right. -Chris On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 24 November 2008 23:04:54 Harry Putnam wrote: I'm just having second

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for everybody, stable, efficient. We will see. Until then I will stay with r4+compression. Well, it is under a restrictive license, so there is no chance

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:16:26 Harry Putnam wrote: You have the right idea. Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have different conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-) Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by conventions... do you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good fs. Fast for everybody, stable, efficient. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Dave Jones
Hi Damian, damian wrote on 24/11/08 21:01: In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching for a lightweight option. ntp is a 'standard' ntp set-up. It needs some configuration work to get it running

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 24 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: btrfs looks very promising. I hope it will become a good

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:41:51 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:15:55 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 24 November 2008, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:41:14PM

Re: [gentoo-user] Flash Busted

2008-11-24 Thread Beau Henderson
On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:45 AM, Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Beau Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As of late ( past couple of weeks ), I've been having trouble with flash. Nothing seems to work. Youtube, google video, lastfm doesn't have the

Re: [gentoo-user] Update the clock using internet servers: recommendations

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Dave Jones wrote: Hi Damian, damian wrote on 24/11/08 21:01: In the past I've used htpdate to synchronize my computer's clock. But I would like to know what daemon would you recommend me. I'm searching for a lightweight option. ntp is a 'standard' ntp set-up. It needs some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dual booting 2 gentoo installations

2008-11-24 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 25 November 2008 00:16:26 Harry Putnam wrote: You have the right idea. Make sure your paths are correct when you install. I see you have different conventions on the two drives. Don't get confused :-) Thanks but I'm not sure what you mean by

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems

2008-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 24. November 2008 22:09:52 schrieb Dale: I wouldn't use XFS unless it was all that was left.  I tried it once a while back and found out it does not like power failures at all.  Each time I had a power failure, I had to reinstall from scratch. Hmm, I use it because of its