Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-23 Thread Richard Freeman
Duncan wrote: I'd blame that on your choice of RAID (and ultimately on the defective hardware, but it wouldn't have been as bad on RAID-1 or RAID-6), more than on what was running on top of it. Agree - RAID-6 would have helped in this particular circumstance (assuming I didn't lose more

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-23 Thread Bob Sanders
Richard Freeman, mused, then expounded: Duncan wrote: I'd blame that on your choice of RAID (and ultimately on the defective hardware, but it wouldn't have been as bad on RAID-1 or RAID-6), more than on what was running on top of it. Agree - RAID-6 would have helped in this particular

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-23 Thread The Doctor
Duncan wrote: 32 megs? That's small! How old is it? I looked at that and thought to myself typo, he must have meant gigs, but then I saw the below... It's very tiny, I'll admit. It came with a camera I bought about four months ago. Needless to say, this is the first time it's ever been

[gentoo-amd64] Re: Disable fsck on boot, was: How to make watchdog start earlier during bootup?

2009-01-23 Thread Duncan
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org posted 4979f593.4010...@gentoo.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:51:31 -0500: If you want to think really long term take a look at btrfs. I am. I'm looking at it much as I was looking at reiser4 some years ago, but it has already passed the hurdle

[gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure how to handle the error message. Also, which of the use flags make sense for a desktop machine? Is nsplugin supported for amd64? javascript? Thanks, Mark

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure how to handle the error message. Also, which of the use flags make sense for a

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I

Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht

[gentoo-amd64] Re: icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread ABCD
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:46 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: After hearing a

[gentoo-amd64] Re: icedtea java on amd64?

2009-01-23 Thread Duncan
ABCD en.a...@gmail.com posted gle2tf$f8...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:45:49 -0500: I'm not certain that this is the *easiest* method, but I've found installing dev-java/gcj-jdk temporarily before building icedtea6 (note that sys-devel/gcc must have USE=gcj for