[gentoo-user] tetex 3.x - how does /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ work?

2006-11-24 Thread Stroller
Hi there, Portage recently upgraded me to tetex-3.0_p1-r3, and natrually it h0sed the changes I'd made to my systemwide updmap.cfg file. Now I find the main tetex-3.x fontmap file to be /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ 00updmap.cfg, which seems like a funny name. That would imply to me that, following

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-24 Thread Norberto Bensa
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 07:38, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?': > > Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. > > What about /boot? [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ sudo

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-24 Thread Thomas Rösner
Willie Wong wrote: On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked: I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:55:31 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. > > What about /boot? What about it? GRUB doesn't care where the partition is, nor does LILO, the boot code is in the MBR not a partition. -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-24 Thread geistteufel
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. a écrit : On Thursday 23 November 2006 07:38, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?': Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. What about /boot? just use lilo ? cert

Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?

2006-11-24 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 23 November 2006 07:38, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Can / and LVM be on a logical partition?': > Yes. I have no primary partitions on any of my x86(_64) machines. What about /boot? -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years, it's t

Re: [gentoo-user] less and colourisation

2006-11-24 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 09:22:24AM +0800, Penguin Lover W.Kenworthy squawked: > I recently had cause to use "less" from a real console, not an xterm and > found that it really does colourise text. It has never done this in an > xterm - how do I turn it on? "man" isnt being very helpful here :( >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia-drivers

2006-11-24 Thread Steve Brenneis
Richard Fish wrote: On 11/22/06, Steve Brenneis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apparently KDE 3.5.5 and the openGL portion of the nvidia-drivers package don't get along too well. I'm using KDE 3.5.5 and nvidia drivers with openGL support just fine, without any crashing etc, on both my laptop and d

[gentoo-user] Re: /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Alexander Skwar
Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: >> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +, Mick wrote: >> > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a >> > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:48 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo > > > Live CDs should have it. > > > > Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both. > > That must be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-24 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-24 12:37]: > The progress meter seems to work only on actual network connections, and > not local copies: [...] Aha, thanks for clearing that up. Cheers! -- Daniel Vrcic -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage

2006-11-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 24 November 2006 11:48, Arnau Bria wrote: > I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files > under /etc/portage: > > # ls -lsa > total 36 > [...] > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 20 22:42 bin > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d They are added in

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage

2006-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 November 2006 12:48, Arnau Bria wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files > under /etc/portage: > > # ls -lsa > total 36 > [...] > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 20 22:42 bin > 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d > 4 drwxrw

[gentoo-user] /etc/portage

2006-11-24 Thread Arnau Bria
Hi, I have recently updated my laptop and found some new files under /etc/portage: # ls -lsa total 36 [...] 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 20 22:42 bin 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root4096 nov 21 11:14 postsync.d 4 drwxrwsr-x 2 root portage 4096 oct 27 2004 sets I'm comparing them with sam

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 11:35:24 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gentoo Live > > CDs should have it. > > Knoppix has LVM, but not EVMS. Gentoo has both. That must be quite new, the last time I looked Knoppix had neither. Thanks for the up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 November 2006 12:15, Daniel Vrcic wrote: > * Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-24 10:57]: > > Hmm, damn. I'd swear that used to work. > > Guess we will have to make do with rsync --progress... > > -Richard > > Heh, it works now. I replaced net-misc/openssh with net-misc/ssh. It

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 11:08 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +, Mick wrote: > > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a > > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the > > good ol' primary & logical partiti

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Progress bar for cp?

2006-11-24 Thread Daniel Vrcic
* Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [06-11-24 10:57]: > Hmm, damn. I'd swear that used to work. > Guess we will have to make do with rsync --progress... > -Richard Heh, it works now. I replaced net-misc/openssh with net-misc/ssh. It seems that scp from the openssh doesn't have this progress meter

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:43:22 +, Mick wrote: > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boot using a > LiveCD (e.g. Knoppix) to recover the fs and data, like one can with the > good ol' primary & logical partitions? Not with Knoppix, you need a live CD with LVM support. The Gento

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 24. November 2006 10:43 schrieb ext Mick: > > For future installations you should consider using some kind of logical > > volume manager like LVM or EVMS from the beginning, together with an > > online-resizable filesystem. > > In the event that the OS get borked, is it possible to boo

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 24 November 2006 11:43, Mick wrote: > On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make > > a different proposal. > > > > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and > > link the new partit

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr almost full

2006-11-24 Thread Mick
On Friday 24 November 2006 06:43, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Other's have already told you what you can delete. I'd like to make a > different proposal. > > If you could create another partition, you could install EVMS and link the > new partition to your /usr partition, using EVMS's drive-link plugi

Re: [gentoo-user] portage KeyError

2006-11-24 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 November 2006 13:10, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 23 November 2006 10:50, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > > Hi, > > > > running eix-sync (for the n+1st time) on an AMD64 machine > > I've got the following portage error. > > What does that mean and what can I do about it? > > [SN