Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS)

2011-12-01 Thread Пермяков Евгений
On 12/01/11 07:24, srini srini wrote: Hello, I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with different other OS'es including windows. As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. Can anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +, David W Noon wrote: Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before remounting root rw. Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside an

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the command line? If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry extras) mplayer

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:49:26 -0600, Dale wrote: I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-12-01 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 12/01/2011 09:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry extras) mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: $ mplayer -dumpstream

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Stroller
On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 This is

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

2011-12-01 Thread Samuraiii
I did this before - but tried it again - stil the resolut is same no bzip2 support S On 2011-11-30 01:51, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 30, 2011 7:37 AM, "Samuraiii" samura...@volny.cz wrote: No luck, grep

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:00:51 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: If mplayer can play the discs, it should work. $ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile title.vob dvd://1 there's no -streamdump option

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Dale
Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS)

2011-12-01 Thread Dale
srini srini wrote: Hello, I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with different other OS'es including windows. As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. Can anyone help me about this.

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

2011-12-01 Thread sean
On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a drive case? I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical parameters on the cable just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

2011-12-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 29.11.2011 09:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: How about the EIO jet card mentioned in the manual for this device? They should be cheap, used. I get one for free from a friend ... hope that works ;-) Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread James Broadhead
On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem.  I been downloading a lot of TV shows.  I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names.  This

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:47:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running inside an initramfs, one cannot load executable content from

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem.  I been downloading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +, David W Noon wrote: I understand that, but not why you need to run e2fsck before the switch_root. Is this to do with the way your system is set up? The object of the initramfs is only to get the system into a state where / can be mounted and switch_root run,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +, David W Noon wrote: I understand that, but not why you need to run e2fsck before the switch_root. Is this to do with the way your system is set up? The object of the initramfs is only to get the system into a state where / can be mounted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:13:24 -0600, Dale wrote: I need to fsck / before I mount /usr, /var and everything else. Now it makes sense, but can't you use busybox fsck? I thought the file system was mounted ro, then the file system checks done, then remounted rw and boot continues on?

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

2011-12-01 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:42:04AM -0600, Dale wrote: Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. I see you've renamed your

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2011-12-01 Thread srini srini
Thanks for the reply. @permeakra, I'll also go with GRUB 1 as it allows me to know whats going on on stage1 VBR. The xen is also good, thanks for marking here, I'll set it up for my work laptop ;) @Dale, as you mentioned: If it is a mix of those, then you need to look into ways to get them to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip] Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of your initeamfs? Not really.  I am

[gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-01 Thread András Csányi
Dear All, To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and easy to use. Not to mention that it has eye candy in a good way and doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 2

2011-12-01 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:58:13PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:47, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: - 8 snip 3) In the bootloader append line, include init=/sbin/linuxrc where ?? the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... #!/sbin/busybox ash mount

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2011-12-01 Thread Walter Dnes
Corrected #!/sbin/busybox ash to #!/bin/busybox ash in step 3. The weird part is that my system actually booted and ran fine even with this typo in the script. The usual warnings apply... * this is a beta * use a spare test machine * if you don't follow the instructions correctly, the result

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-01 Thread András Csányi
On 1 December 2011 20:01, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote: Dear All, To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able

[gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-01 Thread walt
I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the spreadsheet. And then the screen

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread David W Noon
On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:41:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: [snip]

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:43 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 01.12.2011 19:51, schrieb András Csányi: I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and easy to use. András, pls tell us about your usual use of desktop do you use gentoo for business? Or private use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

2011-12-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 2, 2011 2:50 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Corrected #!/sbin/busybox ash to #!/bin/busybox ash in step 3. The weird part is that my system actually booted and ran fine even with this typo in the script. Amazingly enough, my system also works. Albeit with two red

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

2011-12-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 AM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote: - 8 snip I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large (32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. This sucks,

[gentoo-user] Gnome 3.2.2 Block

2011-12-01 Thread Jason Weisberger
From a fresh install, upgrading from Gnome 2.26, I'm trying to install gnome 3.2.2, but getting nowhere fast. I stopped using Gentoo back before slots became common, so maybe I'm missing something as far as that goes. Thanks in advance guys/gals! Jason Weisberger jbdubbspc jbdubbs # emerge -pv

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome 3.2.2 Block

2011-12-01 Thread Jason Weisberger
Correction, Gnome 3.2.1 -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

2011-12-01 Thread victor romanchuk
Can anyone confirm or deny? i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3 after an hour of tries decided to switch back to

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

2011-12-01 Thread András Csányi
On 2 December 2011 00:28, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 01.12.2011 19:51, schrieb András Csányi: I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and easy to use. András, pls tell us about your usual