Re: [gentoo-user] emerge portage

2008-04-18 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Freitag, den 18.04.2008, 13:09 +0200 schrieb ext robert anstuther: I am worried that I mess up my kernel by proceeding You can only mess up your kernel by recompiling it with the wrong options set in the kernel config and then use it at next boot. portage _never_ compiles a kernel. It just

Re: [gentoo-user] Crippled system

2008-04-16 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 00:57 -0400 schrieb ext Richard Marzan: I had a circular dep problem with mktemp and coreutils and emerge -C'd coreutils. Now I can't do anything significant just cd. how can i repair this? Not tested: Boot a Gentoo LiveCD, create a coreutils binary package with

Re: [gentoo-user] scp escape characters

2008-04-16 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick: I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g. This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt But scp would fail each time saying that the name is ambiguous (or something similar). I also tried enclosing the name in 'single', or

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem

2008-04-11 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 13:13 +0200 schrieb ext Amar Cosic: Well I just make a progres , I got kernel panic :). Then I could see available devices listed by kernel and it says drives are hdc1-3 :/. On live cd I see sda1-3. Now Lilo returns erorrs when trying to install it becouse on Live

Re: [gentoo-user] Dell PowerEdge 750 problem

2008-04-11 Thread dirk.heinrichs.ext
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 17:12 +0930 schrieb ext Iain Buchanan: On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 09:07 +0200, Amar Cosic wrote: This is hell! I have all SATA stuff, all SCSI stuff ,almost all ATA stuf, all Intel stuff, all Linux FS stuff and still same errorr for 24 hours :(( with my Poweredge