On 8/31/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/30/06, Thufir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
checking root filesystem
fsc ext3: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/hda4
Fix /etc/fstab. Replace all /dev/hda with /dev/hdb.
-Richard
[...]
Excellent! thanks :)
-Thufir
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Is a Celeron D Process 310, 2.13 GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 256 KB L2 Cache
considered an x86, i586 or i686 in terms of the stage 3 tarballs.
Which is best for that type of chip?
thanks,
Thufir
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On 8/19/06, Uwe Thiem [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19 August 2006 10:31, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
Is a Celeron D Process 310, 2.13 GHz, 533 MHz FSB, 256 KB L2 Cache
considered an x86, i586 or i686 in terms of the stage 3 tarballs.
Which is best for that type of chip?
That's P4-based, so it's
I just got an ipod shuffle, 1gig, for free. Apparently it has
different partitions for music/data and must by synced with iTunes to
a specific machine?
Err, is that so?
If so, can I just format the darn thing and use if for mp3's?
-Thufir
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On 8/19/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just got an ipod shuffle, 1gig, for free.
[...]
It mounted fine, I put an mp3 on it and played that mp3 with xmms and
my headphones in the _computers_ jack.
However, that's rather pointless.
-Thufir
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Just want to say that I appreciate the screenshots at:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/gli/review.php
-Thufir
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If I'm interpreting the output from the live CD GUI install correctly,
there's some sort of connection problem with nearly every attempt by
the gui installer to download anything.
The entire log and output files are on my website, as:
http://hawat.thufir.googlepages.com/gentoo.log.txt and
On 8/16/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
138103 !!! Couldn't download usb.ids-20040902.gz. Aborting.
138104 ...done!
138105 emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/usbutils-0.11-r5 to /
138106 Exception received:
138107 EmergePackageError :FATAL: emerge: Could not emerge
sys-apps/usbutils
On 8/16/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
As the problem is with the download (?), what I'll do is manually
download the stage3 tarball then point to that file during the
install.
If I could point to it graphically, that'd be preferable.
-Thufir
GLI: August 16 2006 11:53:48
GLI: August 16 2006 13:25:34 - Setting root password.
GLI: August 16 2006 13:25:35 - Livecd root password set.
GLI: August 16 2006 13:25:43 - Portmap started.
GLI: August 16 2006 13:25:43 - Completed pre_install steps
GLI: August 16 2006 13:43:38 - Partition table for /dev/hda is
How do I know which device to specify?
This is the error message I get on boot:
Activating udev
Determining root device
!! Block device /dev/hda4 is not a valid root device...
!! The root block device is unspecified or not detected.
Please specify a device to boot, or shell for a shell...
On 8/15/06, Richard Fish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/15/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two hard drives. The slave has gentoo and win2k. GRUB
seems to work fine, windows boots fine.
IDE (or rather PATA now) devices on linux are named in order of the
channel then master
On 8/16/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] cat grub.conf -n
1 default 0
2 timeout 30
3 splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
4 title=Gentoo Linux
5 root (hd0,1)
6 kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-gentoo-r5 root=/dev/ram0
init
The wiki mentions knoppix in relation to xorg.conf, but I don't follow
what's happening in the knoppix configuration.
The xorg.conf on the hard drive, generated by gentoo, is being moved
so that knoppix can use it?
' Configuring Video in X11
Code: Configuring x.org
# Text configuration
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When I type in, for instance, this window (gmail in firefox) the
screen flickers with each keystroke. Also, if I'm in the terminal
window, for gnome, and type, same thing.
[...]
(IIRC the gentoo live CD didn't have this problem, but I might
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at
gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :)
[...]
Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work:
Script started on Wed Aug 9 17:53:23 2006
[EMAIL PROTECTED
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
The knoppix CD seems to work fine, I'm in firefox, typing away at
gmail, with no lines/static on the screen :)
[...]
Here's the knoppix xorg.config file, which seems to work:
[...]
here's the error message:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~/Desktop
On 8/9/06, THUFIR HAWAT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did notice that Knoppix recognized a specific monitor, wheras the
Gentoo live CD only recognized a generic monitor. Why would Knoppix
recognize a specific monitor where gentoo doesn't?
I would've assumed things like that are (nearly
I want a setup such as at
http://www.fs-security.com/docs/pics/complexnat.png and am reading
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO/index.html to that
end. However, there are just two machines, the gateway and a
secondary.
There's also a diagram at
On 8/9/06, Lord Sauron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Yes, use a hub. Then when Caladan, Ix, Draconus_IV, Salusa_Secundus,
and finally Tleiax enter your network, they too can be connected to
the Spacing Guild as well. ; )
[...]
Thanks for completing the picture :)
arrakis connects wirelessly
I've yet to replace a failed power supply, so this is hypothetical for
me. However, when I switched from Fedora to Gentoo I experienced some
screen flcker/static, and was directed to
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml.
It now occurs to me that I could capture what, for example,
I've read abit about cron, then I was thinking about doing it myself,
when I came across this very neat file :)
Just to confirm, please, all I do is uncomment line 10 and every hour
fetchnews will run as a daemon? Neat-o!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ cat -n
On 3/27/06, Matt Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
Why can I not telnet to my own localhost?
Is leafnode enabled? Or is it still disabled?
Check your xinetd configuration.
I think it's enabled, see below.
Alexander Skwar
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On 3/27/06, Jerry McBride [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
The localhost is not a service it's an ip.
Jerry
..
Jerry, I'm not understanding the signicance of that. Ping is
resolving localhost to the ip, yes?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ping localhost
On 3/27/06, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Well, it seems leafnote is either _not_ up and running or not
listening for
connections on network interface lo.
Pardon, I'm not understanding what you mean by network interface.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ telnet localhost
Trying
On 3/27/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 05:58 +0100, THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
I want to test that leafnode is up and running, so am using telnet:
[snip]
Why can I not telnet to my own localhost?
maybe your services are not listening on lo, and only on eth0
On 3/27/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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As root a netstat -ptln might tell you if xinetd is holding the
port, but since xinetd is a superdaemon of sorts it might not
show
it on the port unless there is a working connection... I'm not
sure
and have no desire to install xinetd
On 3/27/06, kashani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THUFIR HAWAT wrote:
I've been rebooting :(
Is there a better way?
/etc/init.d/xinetd stop
/etc/init.d/xinetd start
or
/etc/init.d/xinetd restart
Ah, thank you :)
localhost ~ # date
Mon Mar 27 21:30:44 IST 2006
localhost ~ #
I
I'd crosspost this from news.softwear.readers, but I don't have
leafnode configured yet ;)
Here is a sample /etc/xinetd/leafnode entry. The entry in the server
field has to point to your locally installed leafnode executable.
Dependent on the installation, this executable may not reside in
On 3/26/06, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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/etc/xinetd.d/leafnode
such that it's appended /etc/xinetd.conf when xinetd runs?
Check out your /etc/xinetd.conf.
But /etc/xinetd.d/leafnode will be included, yes.
Alexander Skwar
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
On 3/21/06, Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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So, just replace /boot/grub/grub.conf with /root/grub.conf
,yes?
Yes, but make shure the menu menu.lst sybolic ling is pointing
to grub (ls -s menu.lst grub.conf.)
Robert
..
I looked for menu.1st and couldn't find it :(
However,
On 3/24/06, Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As root:
X -configure
This will attempt to detect your X hardware - mouse, keyboard, video,
monitor - and create a new temporary file called xorg.conf.new. You'll
then be able to edit and use this file to test X. You'll need to modify
xorg.conf.new
On 3/19/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In order to get a proper FQDN, you need to set up three files:
/etc/hosts, /etc/conf.d/hostanme, /etc/conf.d/domainname.
I also have the same problems as you in past, and one day I found
that the most tricky thing was
On 3/22/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi,
~x86 means that this package is marked as unstable because it needs
some testing, if you want to test it (don't worry, I've my whole
system in ~x86 and it's quite stable), just unmask it this way :
echo net-www/mozplugger ~x86
I recently switched from fedora to gentoo, it's a dual boot system.
Never in Fedora, not in windows, but in gentoo, I get screen
flickers/static. It's not a hardware problem as just a little bit ago
I was in windows, no problem. The connections to the monitor and so
forth are fine.
When I type
On 3/22/06, Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
..
Hi,
~x86 means that this package is marked as unstable because it needs
some testing, if you want to test it (don't worry, I've my whole
system in ~x86 and it's quite stable), just unmask it this way :
echo net-www/mozplugger ~x86
On 3/22/06, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22/03/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, masked packages only require that package.keyword be edited, but
hardmasked packages also require that package.unmask be edited?
I see the sense in having different grades of
On 3/22/06, Pierrick Couturier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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You have xmms in your USE flags (default gentoo USE flags, I
assume). So when you'va tried to install mplayer, portage
wants to install xmms too because mplayer can use xmms or
parts of it (I don't how) if you want.
Yes, xmms is in
On 3/19/06, Robert Welz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi.
You don't have to format your windows partition, you don't even toch it.
Just format /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
and /dev/hda2 and install gentoo on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 as
described in the handbook.
When gentoo is
The times:
start: March 20 2006 14:00:01
finish: March 21 2006 13:22:39
isn't that a bit much?
localhost Desktop #
localhost Desktop #
localhost Desktop # cat log.txt -n
1 GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:01 - Setting root password.
2 GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:03 - Livecd root password
Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from
fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and
everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create
/home/user_name ? No problem, I created that directory. However,
startx as that user gives errors. I
On 3/21/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory
and own it by the user being added.
..
Ah, thanks all for responding :)
-Thufir
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I've read http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Skype and it looks ok. Under
fedora it never quite worked right, some sort of incompatability with
xmms I suspect. Just sorta soliciting experiences with skype and
gentoo :)
If I can get it working properly that'd be one less reason to use windows :)
I notice that, with an account, it's possible to, apparently, download
the source code from Sun for Java. Does that, or could that, solve
lotsa problems for portage, or not really?
-Thufir
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My first install of gentoo:
GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:01 - Setting root password.
GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:03 - Livecd root password set.
GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:04 - Portmap started.
GLI: March 20 2006 14:00:04 - Completed pre_install steps
GLI: March 20 2006 14:08:52 - partitioning: Processing
I have two NIC's, one which is built into the mother board and one
which is recently installed (this is on a dual boot system). before
installing the second NIC I was able to configure an 802.11b/g network
adapter from windows, and everything would run fine under linux.
after putting in the new
On 6/20/05, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi,
Some time ago, on this ML there was such question/s.
Remember there were some syntax (in grub/lilo) to load one net-card
first the other second.
Just search the list-archive.
The card/parameter is given as kernel-loading value.
Or
On 6/8/05, Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Same here; my cheap-as-chips and old-as-methuselah 8139 works fine as
well-- in fact, it's the one thing I can count on working right if I go
distro-hopping, no matter where I wind up.
However, you make a good point, Antoine... the driver
I urgently need a second ethernet (RJ-45 telephone-looking type) NIC
in my computer, which is about a year old, el cheapo but with USB 2.0,
so decent for my needs (sorry, don't have mother board details at the
moment).
the local store is willing to install a SMC one for a good price. my
only
On 6/8/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Just wanted to say this..
El-Cheapo cards will work, but may not be as full-featured or as fast
throughput as the more expensive 3com cards. eg: USD6 Dlink vs USD25
3com.
One Dlink I got was absolutely horrible. It will hang after a
On 5/24/05, Julien Cayzac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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LFS is Linux From Scratch.
You probably meant FHS, but I think everybody guessed it right
anyway...
Julien.
...
I think I put LSB and FHS together for LFS, maybe there was some LSD
in there. my favorite is TLA for three letter acronym
On 5/23/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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If you want to find out how gentoo installs sun-jdk I suggest you
read the ebuild, I have had a quick look and it seems to use a
.bin file from Sun, not an rpm.
It also looks as though a bit of trickery is used to unpack the bin
file.
if
On 5/23/05, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Why? gentoo is not distributing sun-jdk. a binary rpm would be.
read the ebuild. read the license.
pardon, where's the ebuild? I can't find it. I can only infer that
an rpm cannot be created from a .bin file while an ebuild can.
The
what is about portage which allows
http://packagestest.gentoo.org/ebuilds/?sun-jdk-1.5.0.03, which
don't exist in yum?
thanks,
Thufir
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On 5/23/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I can't give you a factual answer, but I can give you a guess: it's
possible yum has different guidelines on including files, such as
the sun-jdk you pointed out. Licensing restrictions, maybe? But
no, that wouldn't make sense. Or
On 5/13/05, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 12. Mai 2005 21:10 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[Something about IMAP in an unrelated thread]
Please stop thread hijacking.
...
The usenet archives, via google, intermingle this thread with some
questions I had. That
On 5/14/05, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
And saying it will probably continue not to help, because you
haven't said what thread hi-jacking is. Anyone who starts a new
thread by replying to an old one changing the subject is
unlikely to be doing so out of maliciousness. Because
On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..]
By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your
running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as
Knoppix.
[..]
I was hoping for a screen shot to compare against anaconda.
The Gentoo Installation CDs are bootable
I'm looking at
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=2#doc_chap3
and have a few simple questions. currently I have a dual boot system,
with fedora core 3 and windows 2000.
will gentoo show the different partitions and ask which ones to
install on? will it show VFAT,
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