--- Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howdy,
Over the past few months since my first gentoo
install, I have
yet to discover how do I find out the current state
of masked
ebuilds. I.e., I'm looking for 1) why are they
masked, and 2) any
known issues with the build.
Read
--- Michael Kjorling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NFORCE3-250: BIOS didn't set cable bits correctly.
snip
ide1: Wait for ready failed before probe !
Hi Michael,
Does your DVD drive still work with the livecd? If so
you probably don't need to replace the drive. I ran a
search for
--- Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I found a tutorial for svgalib this morning. I've
always been
fascinated by graphics programming, but never found
a tutorial that was
simple enough for me to follow in the beginning. I
liked this tutorial.
Hi Michael,
Sounds like fun.
--- Ognjen Bezanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to upgrade my gentoo box but the
partition where /var/tmp
resides is too full.
So I tried making a symbolic link to another disk
which had a lot of
space, but then gentoo refused to compile, giving me
permission errors.
Hi
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In This case, how would one determine what IUSE
values were used for the
package said package then? How can one use to view
this data?
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
if len(sys.argv)!=2:
print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0]
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
answer the 2nd question I have regarding the + or
- and whether the
USE flag is in USE?
This should do the trick:
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
if len(sys.argv)!=2:
print usage: %s tbz2 file % sys.argv[0]
sys.exit(1)
sys.path =
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So if I understand it correctly, what is being done
is XPAK will take
the USE flags from the system which compiled the
binary and then sort of
make a comparison with the USE flags for that
particular package and
work from there? Am I right?
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Cool.. nice script by the way. I'm gonna include
that in Edition 3
(July) of the MyOSS Magazine
(http://mag.my-opensource.org) as Tips and
Tricks. (crediting you of course)
Oh it's really nothing. Glad I could help. ;-)
Zac
--- Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello.
I am in need of an application like Visio. I tried
messing with dia,
but it's still far from what I need, for it lacks
lots of useful
features.
What program do the list recommend?
Hi Bruno,
Don't miss the Grumpy Editor's guide to
--- Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry but I looked inside the content of a tbz2
file and didn't find
that it has any references to the /var/db directory.
The data not inside the tar archive. It's appended
onto the end of the tbz2 file. You know it's there
because if you unzip
--- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the
system is concerned
Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel
processors with EM64T are supposed to be x86_64
compatible, right? That would mean that the gentoo
AMD64 project applies here.
--- Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- Jonathan Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The standard kernel should do fine. As far as the
system is concerned
Sure but what about 64 bits? CMIIW but new intel
processors with EM64T are supposed to be x86_64
compatible, right? That would
--- Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Then delete directories - bin, sbin, lib, sys,
etc, opt.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2chap=4#doc_chap3
You could recycle the old directories as a 32-bit
chroot environment. That could come in handy if you
want
--- Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all,
I have purchased a new MB and processor. I will be
transitioning from a
regular Athlon to an Athlon64. Since I am not
upgrading my hard drives, I
plan to upgrade the OS as follows:
1. Boot from the latest Gentoo live CD.
2. chroot
--- Antonino Sabetta [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you want a 64 bit userland then you should
start
over with an AMD64 stage.
So you mean that whenever the hardware platform
changes are
so substantial (as in this case), one should install
the system
from scratch?
Please, bear with me,
By new config (AMD64) do you mean change
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu to CHOST=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu ?
Sounds like a bad idea.
--- Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you boot from the
livecd, chroot and
emerge the system using the new config (AMD64),
recompile
--- Budd, Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hmm.
While admittedly extreme, shouldn't setting the new
architecture work, if
you recompile the entire system? Is this one of
those
should-work-in-theory-but-
don't-try-this-at-home kind of things? I know there
are some packages, like
--- Emmanuel Durin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Athlon64 processors can execute 32 bits
instructions. But you can't
use 32 bits executables with 64 bits libraries (or
contrary), and this
will append while recompiling your system (when a
library used by
emerge or gcc will be recompiled), so it
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and
copy the files. I
have added my file and created a new iso.
My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have
followed the link
posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a
bootable cd does not
--- rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice
command. But it doesn't
work as a user. I keeps sending the error message
that the setup is
aborted. Who knows what this means, but its
irritating, having to go
back in to user directory and chowning and
--- cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE,
than you very much. Now is
the time to understand how menus are added to the
task bar.
I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just
emerged are added to the
menu. I know how to create a task bar
--- Hendré Claassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I'm new to the Linux world and have chosen Gentoo as
my weapon of choice. After compiling my kernel, and
rebooting into my new Gentoo system, the keyboard
seized to function. I have compiled the USB Human
Interface option into the
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a linux based prog to add files
to an iso image?
There are windows based ones but thats a route I'd
rather not go down.
Thanks in advance
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
An iso filesystem is read only AFAIK but you
I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is
read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a
loop and create a new iso from those files.
If I create an iso with mkisofs -udf then I am able to
mount -t udf -o loop,rw but there is no extra space on
the filesystem to add files. I use
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw
support to the iso9660 driver ;-)
--- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay - it was a good idea in theory. However, he
can mount it, copy it
somewhere, modify it and then create an iso of the
changes.
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ryan
--- cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pardon the slightly naive question.
I would like to study the c and cpp source on the
packages I am emerging. I
*think* they are removed after compilation. I say I
*think* as I was looking
in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find
them.
How
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