Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk

2011-03-08 Thread Fernando Freire
James, It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. -Fernando On Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM, James

Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?

2011-09-26 Thread Fernando Freire
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.comwrote: Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a realistic

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse

2011-12-05 Thread Fernando Freire
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: snip What does low-spec hardware mean? Whatever the default setup of the latest release of Ubuntu runs sluggish on. (Or what a previous version of Ubuntu ran on, but current versions won't) While somewhat flippant, that

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

2012-01-18 Thread Fernando Freire
I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad Idea. Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as (hd0,3). Also, make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook

2012-01-18 Thread Fernando Freire
On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire freir...@up.edu wrote: snip Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record (MBR) of a drive are very different things. Do you mean; grub root (hd0,0) and NOT grub setup(hd0)  ? Hmm, I first installed grub from