Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-27 Thread Mark Shields
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 6:28 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 25 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. 8G

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't need much space so I probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down the drive and then

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The machine I'm typing this on has 2 of these (Barracuda 7200.7's)- they are absolutely silent...so that machine's one might be ready to throw its bearings! Cheers Mark Alan McKinnon wrote: Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office sounded like it had a Boeing

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 25 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, OK, so this machine I Was speaking of earlier seems ot have a number of issues created by a profile update. I'm attempting to move from 2005.0 to 2007.0. I'm using these documents as reference: Ooooh, this is gonna be fun!

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. Thanks for your help! Cheers, Mark On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:59 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. 8G drives!! Wow, that comes from the previous

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do