[gentoo-user] Netgear AC1750 C7 V2 and IPv6

2020-01-06 Thread Dale
Howdy, Starting a new thread.  I got my modem and router all hooked up.  Networking works except IPv6 isn't quite there yet.  I even got my cell phone and printer working again, IP network address changed.  I'm almost certain the modem and my puter has a working IPv6.  Going to give some info but

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable Python package changes USE flags with ~amd64

2020-01-06 Thread Franz Fellner
I assume those emerge commands weren't done on one machine but come from those two different machines. This change in USE Flags can't come from that line in package.accept_keywords. This is a change in PYTHON_TARGETS in make.conf, package.use or package.env. Carefully go through those config

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Michael Jones
I would be extremely surprised if it activated after not having done so within an hour. You can manually trigger activation in the Windows 10 settings menu somewhere, and get an answer immediately. You *do* need to make sure the version of Windows is 100% identical to what was previously

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 5:19 PM Bill Kenworthy wrote: > > Hi Mark, > was your old version Win10 PRO" as well? - as far as I know a > reinstall will only validate if the hardware as recorded at MS mostly > matches and its the same version. Cloning via dd, then running through > the

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi Mark,     was your old version Win10 PRO" as well? - as far as I know a reinstall will only validate if the hardware as recorded at MS mostly matches and its the same version.  Cloning via dd, then running through the re-validation checks, then making changes in small steps is the only way

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 4:38 PM Mick wrote: > > Hi Mark, welcome back! :-) > Hey Mick. Thanks for the welcome. > This will take for-ever on larger disks as it will be copying all empty bits > and bytes. Instead you may wish to try clonezilla, or partclone. > > https://clonezilla.org/ > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mick
Hi Mark, welcome back! :-) On Monday, 6 January 2020 19:55:44 GMT Michael Jones wrote: > Generally the way I've handled this situation in the past is like so (this > is written from memory, so expect gratuitous problems). > > On the machine with the drive attached > mbuffer -i /dev/mydrive | xz

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Michael, I got Win 10 Pro installed via the M$ tool that creates USB install devices. It worked fine. Reading online it seems that if M$ sees the new disk as still the same 'hardware' then it's supposed to automatically validate and I'd be good to go. so far, after 2 hours it hasn't done that

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Michael Jones
You can use the Windows 10 Download Tool (Or similarly named thing, sorry, I can't find the details of it at this time) to download an ISO image Combine that with the rufus program https://rufus.ie/ (I use the portable one, personally) to create a Windows 10 USB installer stick. On Mon, Jan 6,

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Michael, Thanks for the response. Great info. The install Win 10 clean sounds wonderful if it works. With no DVD in this machine it sounds like I should investigate an install from USB if the machine supports it. It's an Asus gaming laptop circa 2008 so hopefully that works but I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Michael Jones
Generally the way I've handled this situation in the past is like so (this is written from memory, so expect gratuitous problems). On the machine with the drive attached mbuffer -i /dev/mydrive | xz -e -9 | mbuffer -O hostname:port On a machine with storage space mbuffer -I port -o

[gentoo-user] Guidance on using Gentoo to clone a Win 10 system drive

2020-01-06 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi all, I haven't been here in a couple of years. IT's great to see some familiar names posting. Cheers to all. I have a laptop running Win 10 with no (working) DVD/CDROM. For various reasons I want to move from a 10 year old laptop drive to a new SSD and am looking for guidance on I might

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Mick
On Monday, 6 January 2020 13:53:41 GMT Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:25 AM Mick wrote: > > If they are used as normal PC drives for regular writing > > of data, or with back up commands which use rsync, cp, etc. then the disk > > will fail much sooner than expected because of

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 10:05 AM Dale wrote: > > The drive I have is likely > done on the drive itself, device managed, which is good for me. Really the ideal situation are the Host Aware drives. I have no idea what percentage of the markets they make. They fall back to being device managed if

[gentoo-user] Re: External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-01-06, Dale wrote: > Finally got around to rebooting.  It was a experience for sure.  X > wouldn't come up, the plasma thingy doing its thing.  Jeepers.  No > wonder I hate rebooting. I try to remember to reboot all of my machines once a month or so when I've got some spare time

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:18 AM Dale wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:25 AM Mick wrote: If they are used as normal PC drives for regular writing of data, or with back up commands which use rsync, cp, etc. then the disk will fail

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 9:18 AM Dale wrote: > > Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:25 AM Mick wrote: > >> If they are used as normal PC drives for regular writing > >> of data, or with back up commands which use rsync, cp, etc. then the disk > >> will > >> fail much sooner than

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Dale
Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:25 AM Mick wrote: >> If they are used as normal PC drives for regular writing >> of data, or with back up commands which use rsync, cp, etc. then the disk >> will >> fail much sooner than expected because of repeated multiple areas being >> deleted,

Re: [gentoo-user] qtwebkit problem (solved)

2020-01-06 Thread Philip Webb
200105 Jack wrote: > On 1/5/20 5:01 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> In order to update to the latest stable PyQt5-5.13.2 , >> I was required to remerge qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20190629 ; >> Towards the end of the latter compile, I suddenly found myself >> looking at a completely dark screen : the whole

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 8:25 AM Mick wrote: > > If they are used as normal PC drives for regular writing > of data, or with back up commands which use rsync, cp, etc. then the disk will > fail much sooner than expected because of repeated multiple areas being > deleted, before each smaller write.

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Mick
On Monday, 6 January 2020 08:48:13 GMT Stefan Schmiedl wrote: > Dale, > > "Dale" , 06.01.2020, 09:29: > > Also, when looking for a drive to buy, what should one look at to see if > > it is a SMR drive? You will need to visit the OEMs website and dig into the documentation they provide.

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Stefan Schmiedl
Dale, "Dale" , 06.01.2020, 09:29: > Also, when looking for a drive to buy, what should one look at to see if > it is a SMR drive? While it may be OK for my backups, I'd like to avoid > them on the drives inside my rig that are used for the OS or /home. I > dunno, just a gut thing. it's not

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-01-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > <<< SNIP >>> > Should I change the mounting options for this drive?  I've read some > people use certain options for SSD and they are needed.  This is the > options being used according to mount: > > /dev/sdj1 on /run/media/dale/8tb-backup type ext4 >

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE plasmashell and wallpapers.

2020-01-06 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: > > OK.  This is what it spits out, one after another: > > > kf5.kpackage: No metadata file in the package, expected it at: > > > After that, it repeats the same thing with the path and name of each > image on the end of the above.  The only thing that changes is the file > name. > >