[gentoo-user] localmount before fsck: e2fsck complaining

2009-02-01 Thread reQuiem23
hi all, i just noticed some warnings in my bootup process. the order of the services in question is checkfs - localmount - fsck. however, checkfs does the pending file system checks already before the partitions are mounted, so why is there another service fsck which seems to do just the same?

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiple ISPs into a Gentoo box

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone put something like that together? Yes. Can I make use of the combined bandwidth and not just the redundancy? Hm. If I understand you correctly, then no. You can't. But you can -for example- use one link or the

[gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread reQuiem23
Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert a CD or USB stick, the system recognizes it (as you can see in the output of tail /var/log/messages), but nautilus doesn't show a desktop icon or

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel D Jones
I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting the following: =kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 (=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0) Is there an issue with 3.5 and 4.2 being installed together? Is the above block a known issue that's being

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting the following: You'll need kde-3.5.10 (or kdebase-startkde at least) Look in the archives, a similar question was posted a few days

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:38:22 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote: since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it. But there are 408 (!) blocked packages. emerge --unmerge kde-meta didn't do anything. So, what's a feasible way to upgrade? Use automunmask, as already mentioned

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:38:03 +, Daniel D Jones wrote: As a second question, can anyone point me to an informative reference on ~arch? http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3 -- Neil Bothwick Law of Mechanical Repair: After your hands become coated with

[gentoo-user] kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it. But there are 408 (!) blocked packages. emerge --unmerge kde-meta didn't do anything. So, what's a feasible way to upgrade? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine. Does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread Florian Philipp
reQuiem23 schrieb: Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert a CD or USB stick, the system recognizes it (as you can see in the output of tail /var/log/messages), but nautilus doesn't show a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Geralt
Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) who needs an initramfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.2 and KDE-3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:09:12 -0700 (MST), Dmitry Makovey wrote: Now my question is: how safe is it to do a workaround, and create local version of kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0-r1 ebuild (say, -r2) which removes the block and just stick with 3.5.9 on 3.5 side ? I really don't feel like unmasking

Re: [gentoo-user] Sonic-Visualiser compile error

2009-02-01 Thread Arttu V.
Mr Cramer, you replied in private email, but your blacklist bounced/dropped my consequent reply. Replying on-list: On Saturday 31 January 2009 18:07:02 you wrote: But emerge tolds me: emerge -pv rasqual These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) who needs an initramfs? Me of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 1. Februar 2009 17:26:23 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: who needs an initramfs? Those with an encrypted root fs? Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] weekend fun

2009-02-01 Thread Yannick Mortier
2009/2/1 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn16497-international-wildbird-competition/2 That is a proof that Gentoo is beautiful enough to win prizes with it :). -- Currently developing a browsergame... http://www.p-game.de Trade - Expand - Fight Follow me

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:40:29 Norberto Bensa wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting the following: You'll need kde-3.5.10 (or kdebase-startkde at least)

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread reQuiem23
Florian Philipp-4 wrote: reQuiem23 schrieb: Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert a CD or USB stick, the system recognizes it (as you can see in the output of tail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Geralt
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) who needs an initramfs? Me of

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:40:29 Norberto Bensa wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Norberto Bensa wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs

Re: [gentoo-user] Sonic-Visualiser compile error

2009-02-01 Thread meino . cramer
Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com [09-02-01 17:49]: Mr Cramer, you replied in private email, but your blacklist bounced/dropped my consequent reply. Replying on-list: On Saturday 31 January 2009 18:07:02 you wrote: But emerge tolds me: emerge -pv rasqual These are the packages that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Tom wrote: who needs an initramfs? Not me ;) But seeing this discussion, I've finally realised that I'm a dumbass. For ages now I've been manually copying the kernel, the system.map and the config around my filesystem. I've always wondered how on earth people

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 18:34:10 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: I can set the version, either in the kernel config with CONFIG_LOCALVERSION or by using a file localversion containing a version string? I am using the first way, don't know the second. It works just the same, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Dom, 1 de Febrero de 2009, 18:27, Tom escribió: Does this then create a bzImage-versionstring file, and make install copies this to /boot/kernel-versionstring (and system.map and .config respectably)? Yes. Also how exactly do you then need to build the kernel. Does a simple 'make'

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:07:37 +, Daniel D Jones wrote: 3.5.10 is available under the meta package system but not under the KDE package. Do I have to switch to the meta package to go to 3.5.10? (Without, that is, manually unblocking lots and lots of packages.) Can I simply install the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:17:59 Norberto Bensa wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 15:40:29 Norberto Bensa wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:38 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: I have

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Norberto Bensa
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Daniel D Jones ddjo...@riddlemaster.org wrote: Uh, someone's confused here. It may very well be me but I'm not following you at all. The other post concerned startkde blocking kdelibs. Yes. I'm sorry. You're using monolithic KDE. I don't remember if startkde

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
reQuiem23 wrote: Florian Philipp-4 wrote: reQuiem23 schrieb: Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert a CD or USB stick, the system recognizes it (as you can see in the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:49:03 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:07:37 +, Daniel D Jones wrote: 3.5.10 is available under the meta package system but not under the KDE package. Do I have to switch to the meta package to go to 3.5.10? (Without, that is, manually unblocking

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:38:48 -0500, ABCD wrote: To be precise, the config option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION appends a string to the end of the kernel version, which installkernel uses to place the kernel image. You can get the same effect by creating a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Saphirus Sage
On Feb 1, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Geralt wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? I'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) who needs an initramfs?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Daniel D Jones wrote: On Sunday 01 February 2009 17:49:03 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 17:07:37 +, Daniel D Jones wrote: 3.5.10 is available under the meta package system but not under the KDE package. Do I have to switch to the meta package to go to 3.5.10?

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:41:35 -0600, Dale wrote: emerge -C kde emerge --depclean -a emerge -av kde-meta That's what I was afraid of. Sigh. Thanks. Could he just emerge -C kde then re-emerge whatever he wanted without having to reinstall all of KDE? Isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Wicd: ImportError: No module named gtk

2009-02-01 Thread Arnau Bria
puyhon-updater solved my problem. Cheers, Arnau

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:31:27 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm a little confused here... what exactly is in .version? Say if I wanted to identify the kernel as belonging to a specific machine. HOST is vm23. Now if I wanted to have an incrementing version string that included that host name

[gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

2009-02-01 Thread Mick
Hi All, I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. I seem to have done this successfully in the past, but I am getting inappropriate results this time round. This is the fs I am trying to back up:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread Marc Arens
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:10:30 -0800 (PST) reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp-4 wrote: reQuiem23 schrieb: Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

2009-02-01 Thread reQuiem23
Marc Arens-3 wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:10:30 -0800 (PST) reQuiem23 niklas.baumst...@gmail.com wrote: Florian Philipp-4 wrote: reQuiem23 schrieb: Hello all, I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with removable media. It was not an upgrade, but a

[gentoo-user] Re: No RTC kernel support needed?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: One of my systems needed Real Time Clock - PC-style 'CMOS' enabled in the kernel to prevent a Hardware Clock error at startup and to make the 'hwclock' command work. Another of my systems doesn't have Real Time Clock kernel support enabled at all, and yet 'hwclock' works fine.

[gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it. But there are 408 (!) blocked packages. emerge --unmerge kde-meta didn't do anything. You need an emerge -a --depclean after unmerging all -meta packages. But usually this won't work either since most

[gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2006.0 minimal LiveCD iso? According to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml If you want to use the minimal CD on a smaller key or boot a i686 system, you need to follow the procedure described in this document with a 2006.0 minimal CD

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Grant wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2006.0 minimal LiveCD iso? According to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml If you want to use the minimal CD on a smaller key or boot a i686 system, you need to follow the procedure

RE: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread John Hawk
I have an old 2006.0 cd. I can make an ISO image if you have a place for me to upload it to. From: Grant [mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com] Sent: Sun 2/1/2009 4:09 PM To: Gentoo mailing list Subject: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD? Does

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread Constantine D. Kardaris
as i see the bug has been declared fixed so must be safe to use the latest livecd

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2006.0 minimal LiveCD iso? According to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml If you want to use the minimal CD on a smaller key or boot a i686 system, you need to follow the procedure described in this document with a

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Daniel D Jones wrote: I have KDE 3.5 and 4.1 installed and am trying to upgrade to 4.2. I'm getting the following: =kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 (=kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4 is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0) Is there an issue with 3.5 and 4.2 being installed together? Is the above block a

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread KH
Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi, I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When did this happen? Is x86 the same as i386? yes. They merged the

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi, I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage has moved from arch/i386/boot/bzImage to arch/x86/boot/bzImage. When

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread KH
I am running amd64 using 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 and in arch there still is x86 an x86_64. Am I doing anything wrong or did I just missanderstand you? kh cd in there and look around. x86_64 only has a boot directory and when you look at the bzImage file in it you find it's a link to

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi, I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something. It seems bzImage has moved from

Re: [gentoo-user] STAR options have me confused

2009-02-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I do not seem to be able to run star with the correct options despite some experimenting ... and was hoping you could correct my errors. Try the command lines from the example section in the man page ;-) The fs is shown to be 1.1G large:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.2 and 3.5

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:23:11 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Note that you can put slotted packages in the world file. For example if all you have in there is kde-base/kdelibs and you remove it, depclean will remove both KDE3 and well as KDE4 libs. Simply put kde-base/kdelibs:3.5 in the

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote: Hi, I just rebuilt a newer kernel and noticed something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download 2006.0 minimal LiveCD?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
Does anyone know where I can get a copy of the 2006.0 minimal LiveCD iso? According to this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/liveusb.xml If you want to use the minimal CD on a smaller key or boot a i686 system, you need to follow the procedure described in this document with a 2006.0 minimal

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On Sun, Feb 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Volker Armin Hemmann schrieb: On Sonntag 01 Februar 2009, Dale wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:08:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Basically I build the kernel using make make modules_install and then copy the kernel by hand using cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 or whatever the kernel is. I add that to grub.conf and I'm done. works for

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Tom
Basically I build the kernel using make make modules_install and then copy the kernel by hand Good god. So I'm not alone in being a dumbass :) And I was getting really worried that I had made a fool of myself by posting earlier and admitting my 'stupidity' ;) Coming from debian, with all that

Re: [gentoo-user] Sonic-Visualiser compile error

2009-02-01 Thread Arttu V.
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Now the build succeeds. Nevertheless, starting sonic-visualisers complains: sonic-visualiser: error while loading shared libraries: libvamp-hostsdk.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory I cannot find libvamp-hostsdk. Neither emergeing

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:08:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Basically I build the kernel using make make modules_install and then copy the kernel by hand using cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 or whatever the kernel is. I

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread »Q«
On Mon, 2 Feb 2009 03:23:56 + Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:17, Tom wrote: Basically I build the kernel using make make modules_install and then copy the kernel by hand Good god. So I'm not alone in being a dumbass :) What they said. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 01:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 15:08:25 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Basically I build the kernel using make make modules_install and then copy the kernel by hand using cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 or whatever

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-01 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Can you recommend a non-biased news source online? - Grant http://www.foxnews.com/ Fair and Balanced. *rofl* Joke of the day ;-o cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 03:46, Dale wrote: ... I think I tried this /or genkernel when I looked at /boot I found they'd littered the place with clutter. I hope you won't be offended, but the amount of junk files this added made me want to barf. I have avoided any such complications since,

[gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system I'm about to install. Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? I _think_ it should be just a case of untarring the stage 3, chrooting in, updating everything to latest reboot. As long as I use 2.6.28 when I

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 04:33, Stroller wrote: ... As long as I use 2.6.28 when I install I don't think there should be anything that is incompatible with ext4?? I should have added: I plan to use ext3 for my boot partition. Cheers, Stroller.

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct.

Re: [gentoo-user] cnn.com flash videos crash firefox

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Can you recommend a non-biased news source online? - Grant http://www.foxnews.com/ Fair and Balanced. *rofl* Joke of the day ;-o cu Nope, not a joke at all. Thinking CNN is fair and balanced would

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-02-01, Geralt usr.gen...@googlemail.com wrote: Nobody here using the genkernel package to build his kernel? Not me. I do use the debian install utilities. Ib'm using it all the time, makes initramfs creation so much easier :-) Why would one need an initramfs? -- Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Stroller wrote: For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system I'm about to install. Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? Yep, SystemRescueCD supports it: http://www.sysresccd.org It's even Gentoo-based, what a deal! ;) I _think_ it should be just

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system I'm about to install. Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? I _think_ it should be just a case of untarring the stage 3, chrooting in, updating everything to latest reboot. As long as I use

Re: [gentoo-user] When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 03:46, Dale wrote: ... I think I tried this /or genkernel when I looked at /boot I found they'd littered the place with clutter. I hope you won't be offended, but the amount of junk files this added made me want to barf. I have avoided any such

[gentoo-user] Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Miernik
After running 'emerge -uD world' I have many things messed-up, besides the unability of firefox to do DNS resolve for most (but not all) URLs. ssh also can't DNS resolve some hosts (but ping can on the same hosts). All my manpages look like this: ESC[1mNAMEESC[0m ls - list directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Montag 02 Februar 2009, Miernik wrote: After running 'emerge -uD world' I have many things messed-up, besides the unability of firefox to do DNS resolve for most (but not all) URLs. ssh also can't DNS resolve some hosts (but ping can on the same hosts). All my manpages look like this:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo messed up after upgrade

2009-02-01 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 02 Februar 2009, Miernik wrote: After running 'emerge -uD world' I have many things messed-up, besides the unability of firefox to do DNS resolve for most (but not all) URLs. ssh also can't DNS resolve some hosts (but ping can on the same hosts). All

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 04:50, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Stroller wrote: For more funroll-loopiness I contemplate using ext4 for the new system I'm about to install. Anyone know of any LiveCDs that would support this? Yep, SystemRescueCD supports it: http://www.sysresccd.org It's even

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct. OK, does i686 indicate 64-bit? - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct. OK, does i686 indicate 64-bit? No. 64-bit is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CHOST='i486-pc-linux-gnu' ?

2009-02-01 Thread Grant
I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? If it's an Intel-compatible (x86) and Gentoo is 32-bit, then yes, that's correct. OK, does i686 indicate 64-bit? Nope. i686 is still x86.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 for a new installation?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 06:14:17 schrieb Stroller: Hence I'd be worrying about   incompatibilities when chrooting in, if I used a non-Gentoo one. When you're chrooted, you _are_ in a Gentoo system. It doesn't matter what system you used to unpack that stage tarball before. I use GRML for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 2. Februar 2009 05:53:34 schrieb Grant Edwards: Why would one need an initramfs? That question has already been answered in this thread. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu ?

2009-02-01 Thread Stroller
On 2 Feb 2009, at 04:32, Grant wrote: I'm installing Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 110. It's one of the netbook laptops. /etc/make.conf says: CHOST=i486-pc-linux-gnu Is that correct? This thread has gotten confusing. If you mean the Acer Aspire One netbook (of which the A110 is a sub-model)

[gentoo-user] Re: When did bzImage move?

2009-02-01 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dale wrote: Stroller wrote: On 2 Feb 2009, at 03:46, Dale wrote: ... I think I tried this /or genkernel when I looked at /boot I found they'd littered the place with clutter. I hope you won't be offended, but the amount of junk files this