Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Mike Owen
On 6/2/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install everything except toys, games and educational packages. Since the DO_NOT_COMPILE is not meant to be used

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/26/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Gentoo on the x86 arch you mean. It's a shame they released a binary only version, especially one using a Wine wrapper around the original Windows application.

Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/packet

2006-04-28 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/28/06, Yrjö Hatakka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? -- ykä at home There are a few bugs open on bugzilla for this. I personally hate it, so I made a small patch for portage to disable it. If you want to disable it for the future, edit

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/5/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, At work there's a rather restrictive gateway in place for connecting LAN desktops to the Internet. How would you go about finding its IP address? Assume that I am booting with Knoppix for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick I'm curious as to

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/6/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/04/06, Mike Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious as to why you need the proxy info in the first place. It sounds like you can connect out just fine, so why bother with configuring a proxy? No I can't connect to the Internet. Also I

Re: [gentoo-user] Versiera Internet Management and Monitoring System

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/5/06, Frank Pikelner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetCraft Communications Incorporated today announced the immediate snip spam I can't believe Netcraft thinks that spamming mailing lists will get people interested in their product. If anything, I think it would have the opposite effect. I for

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking that I was getting a deeper level of

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/6/06, Erwin Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone! i tried to emerge lilo (`emerge -bva lilo') - but it aborts with the following error-message: open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) In the past, emerging LILO would choke

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES=parallel-fetch? It's probably not the best idea to recommend ~arch versions of portage. Mike --

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/13/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every time. Is there another way to

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/20/06, Linux Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. I used Gnome for years (5 or 6 maybe?), but have recently switched to kde-3.4 and then now kde-3.5. For me, I wanted to try something different, and it is a nice change. I may swap back

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/19/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing happened. What gives?

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on xeon with 64 bits extention

2006-01-12 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/12/06, Catalin Neagoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone knows if there is gentoo for xeon with 64 bits extention? 'cause I've seen that there are only amd_64,ppc64 and sparc64 gentoo versions. Am I wrong? Thank you. -- Catalin Even though it's called amd64, it's for all

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Owen
On 8/19/05, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). I have this: route_eth0=(default via 192.168.1.101) Change that to routes_eth0 and it should work. Mike

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hs /* This will give you an easy to