* Oliver Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-11 19:20]:
> You're right, one should expect that an upgrade option shouldn't
> install new packages from scratch
emerge(1) says that -u is 'update' not 'upgrade' - it updates your
system to have the latest version of a pkg, i.e. "install pkg X version
> > From: Spider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Can anyone mention a clone, or an emulator/VM setup that can play
> > said
> > old game?
* Van Eps, Nathan D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-12-02 09:19]:
> There is a DOS version of Prince of Persia you can download!
There's also a Mac version on abandon
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-21 05:40]:
> Well portage has that, but one doesn't need to add these 'free' licenses
> to it. And the automatic addition of accepted licenses doesn't work
> yet, but I think it's under way. This was developed, because some games
> need eula's accepted when install
* Thomas T. Veldhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-19 09:39]:
> Marianne Taylor wrote:
> > Does anyone know the answer to my original question. Up until about
> > a month ago I was keeping good time both in windows and in gentoo
> > with my hwclock set to local. Now for some reason everytime I b
* Collins Richey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-04 07:49]:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:09:56 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > After a few painful rescues, I now make /boot is unmounted when not
> > needed.
> Security freaks will complain, but I have been with gentoo almost since
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-28 13:07]:
> >- From the forums it looks like you have to edit /etc/X11/Sessions/
> >kde-3.1.4 and source the ~/.xsession. Rather irrating to have to do
> >this yourself.
> >% cat /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.1.4
> >#!/bin/sh
> >if [ -r ~/.xsession ]; t
* Richard Revis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-22 20:06]:
> I have been lusting after a G4 powerbook recently and since they are
gentoo-ppc-user might get you some better results (CC'd)
I have everything working fine on my iBook, but I have a feeling there
may be one or two problems with the latest
* Andrei Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-22 00:38]:
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild N] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r8
> Shouldn't the flag be U in the updates list ?
There appears to have been a change it how portage reports updates in
different slots. It seems t
* Hall Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-21 13:18]:
> Someone commented about *not* replacing files like /etc/fstab or /etc/issue
> and the response was that "we sometimes need to merge new information". I
> guess I have a different definition of "merge"... To me, "merge" would
> imply "add
* David Friggens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-20 16:06]:
> I think what you've done is compiled it in the kernel, but the kernel
> versions are for X 4.2 (?). emerge xfree-drm to get the 4.3 version.
Oh, and recompile your kernel without the old versions. (Assuming you
didn&
* HvR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-19 15:33]:
> yes i am using i810 which seems to load fine, i also have i8x0 in my
> USE, however i did not turn on 3dfx is that needed here? so why is XFree
> complaining it needs a newer version of i830.0 i have compiled the
> latest version?
I think what you've
* David Gethings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-16 12:29]:
> Secondly, downloading all the packages over a 56k modem is a
> non-starter. Espcially as I only have one phone line and a chatty wife.
I'm in a similar situation to you. What I usually do is get it to
download overnight.
Something like
%
* Joshua Banks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 03:26]:
> Does this mean that XFree is my window manger and KDE is an
> extension of XFree?
> What specifically is the difference between WindowMangers and Desktops? When I go
> here,
Have a read of Section 16.1: "What is X" here:
http://www.netbsd.o
* David Friggens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-13 08:42]:
> I recently set up Grub to dual-boot Gentoo and NetBSD ...
> I'll send you my grub.conf when I get home.
According to Linux, NetBSD is on hda and Gentoo boot/root are hdd1 and
hdd3 respectively. The tab completion at the
* Barry Marler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-12 11:44]:
> Also, you'd have to add a FreeBSD section.
> I seem to recall there are issues using grub to boot it.
> Better read up on that.
I would recommend having a look at the grub info manual:
% info grub
There's a section on booting FreeBSD.
I re
* Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-11 16:41]:
> > On Saturday 11 October 2003 18:15, you wrote:
> > > I get this message
> > > * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in /etc need updating. * Type
> > > emerge --help config to learn how to update config files.
Do what it says: read `emerge --help
* Gour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-10-02 19:03]:
> I recently switched to Gentoo and put all my partitions on EVMS2
> volumes (included root) and there is no more problem guessing
> correct sizes.
On my iBook I have:
# mac-fdisk /dev/hda
#type name leng
* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 18:31]:
> Does 'make vmlinuz' make an uncompressed kernel?
No, 'make vmlinux' does, but you don't want that on x86. 'make vmlinuz'
produces an error.
> The other 2/3's are where do the System.map and config files come from?
I've just been reading Se
* David Friggens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-16 11:16]:
> * Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 17:40]:
> > bzImage doesn't contain the system symbol map, but the symbol map is
> I'm sure I read that it does. I'll assume I'm wrong as I
* Lindsay Haisley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 17:40]:
> Thus spake David Friggens on Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 04:57:22PM CDT
> > * Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-15 09:57]:
OK, I've got my wires crossed a bit. Mark - you can pretty much ignore
what I said.
I'm not too knowledgable in this area but I'm pretty sure the other two
answers you've got so far are (in part) wrong. I did my first x86
install and kernel build the other day and found this info myself after
trying to figure out why the x86 and ppc kernel procedures were
different. (So I can conf
* Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-08-02 15:39]:
> * On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 13:51, Kees Bergwerf wrote:
> > * Op zaterdag 2 augustus 2003 22:23, schreef Stephane Brossier:
> > > I used the "-5" option which automaticall merge the files,
> > > and it seems it deleted some of my config files suc
> just tried to start krusader as su:
I would say that your easiest option is to use kdesu:
$ kdesu krusader &
David
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