Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl mdi...@diehlnet.com wrote: I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an identical drive. However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start on sector 2048.  Fdisk won't let me create the partition

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Mick
On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 23:13:28 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. [snip...] I haven't seen any howtos for tethering directly

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Diehl
Looks like I can take it from here! Thank you. I didn't know fdisk had an expert menu wink On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:14:30 pm Paul Hartman wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Mike Diehl mdi...@diehlnet.com wrote: I've got a sw RAID1 that just had a failed drive replaced with an

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Andrea Conti
Hello, However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table on the new drive as it is on the old drive. Recent versions of fdisk require partitions to begin on a 1MB boundary; this among other things

Re: [gentoo-user] Recovering RAID1 after disk failure

2011-06-17 Thread Mike Diehl
I've got my drive partitioned, but I WILL read up on sfdisk. Thanks for the pointer. On Friday 17 June 2011 12:27:15 am Andrea Conti wrote: Hello, However, the good drive started on sector 63 and the new drive want's to start on sector 2048. Fdisk won't let me create the partition table

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Cahn Roger
1. are the lights on or flashing with a cable plugged in and pinging something valid? No. They are stable That indicates a problem - if a packet is going out/in, the lights shouls flash Excuse me; I looked only half a second!!! Yes they are flashing. Since this night I found something

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Cahn Roger
If the PC has wireless it would be a quick test to run to prove if the eth0 NIC on the mobo is borked. Yesterday night, under Win XP (!), I could connect to internet with wifi.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Cahn Roger
But, on my desktop I don't have yet internet connection. Is the network card even so out??? I don't know why, but my desktop is now connected to internet! The only thing I did was a reboot! Thanks a lot to you all who tried to help me. It was a hard way to obtain the solution. The problem was

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 11:29:48 +0200, Cahn Roger wrote: Thanks a lot to you all who tried to help me. It was a hard way to obtain the solution. The problem was really a hardware one, not the cable, but just the little box connected to the wall socket for my connection to the router through

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Roger Cahn
You've been using powerline networking and never thought to mention it throughout this entire thread, even when people were saying it had to be a hardware problem? Excuse me Neil, and the others, but you're right, I should have mentionned it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 Jun 2011 10:56:30 Roger Cahn wrote: You've been using powerline networking and never thought to mention it throughout this entire thread, even when people were saying it had to be a hardware problem? Excuse me Neil, and the others, but you're right, I should have mentionned

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 23:13:28 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a modem for my gentoo laptop. [snip...] I haven't seen

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Mick
On Friday 17 Jun 2011 11:52:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 23:13:28 Allan Gottlieb wrote: On Thu, Jun 16 2011, Mick wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2011 15:38:30 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have an htc incredible and want to use it to act as a

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Roger Cahn
Well, as long as your connection problem is now solved you can carry on with using your Gentoo! :) Yes, I'm very happy to be able to use it again on my desktop. Long life to Gentoo, indeed!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread JDM
All hail to that. Gentoo is the best. By far. --Original Message-- From: Roger Cahn To: Gentoo ReplyTo: Gentoo Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Internet Sent: 17 Jun 2011 12:32 Well, as long as your connection problem is now solved you can carry on with using your Gentoo! :) Yes, I'm very

Re: [gentoo-user] tethering an htc incredible

2011-06-17 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Fri, Jun 17 2011, Mick wrote: On Friday 17 Jun 2011 11:52:03 Allan Gottlieb wrote: The forum post does not involve any ms windows code (in is a gentoo forum). Indeed it seems perfect ... ... except that for me it doesn't work. I has worked for others so I must have some configuration

[gentoo-user] NFSv4 idmapd.conf

2011-06-17 Thread Kraus Philipp
Hello, I try to setup a NFSv4 server with idmapd.conf and OSX clients. I have setup my /etc/exports with the share names and I can mount them from the OSX client, but I need a uid / gid mapping. The account data (user / groups) are within a LDAP server on the same host. I try to configure

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet

2011-06-17 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2011-06-17 3:36 AM, Cahn Roger wrote: Since this night I found something important: the little box put in the socket wall from where the cable goes out, doesn't no more work!!! Wow... All of this wasted bandwidth and you are just *now* getting around to mentioning that you are using a

[gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-17 Thread john
Hello, I have installed Plone but unfortunately it will not run. I believe this is down to PIL not being installed as shown when starting Zope in foreground. I have emerged dev-python/imaging but Zope still cannot see PIL. I think the issue is because Plone/Zope depends on python 2.4. Any

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-17 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 17.06.2011 23:16, schrieb john: Hello, I have installed Plone but unfortunately it will not run. I believe this is down to PIL not being installed as shown when starting Zope in foreground. I have emerged dev-python/imaging but Zope still cannot see PIL. I think the issue is because

Re: [gentoo-user] Plone

2011-06-17 Thread john
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:31:39 +0200 Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 17.06.2011 23:16, schrieb john: Hello, I have installed Plone but unfortunately it will not run. I believe this is down to PIL not being installed as shown when starting Zope in foreground. I have

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread walt
On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On my personal system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never going to use any of the others. Me too -- or maybe I should say moi aussi. I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation

[gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/18/2011 03:50 AM, walt wrote: On 06/16/2011 12:00 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: On my personal system, I only install the US-English locales because I know I'm never going to use any of the others. Me too -- or maybe I should say moi aussi. I've tried to prevent the installation of many many

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /etc/locale vs /etc/env.d/02locale?

2011-06-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 18 June 2011 01:50:12 walt wrote: I've tried to prevent the installation of many many unneeded megabytes of translation files in /usr/share/locale/* but I've never succeeded. ATM I have 101MB of *.mo translation files in /usr/share/locale even though I deleted all of them less