Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=% k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive [...] ATTRS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE You see the difference? HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: BUS==usb, KERNEL==sd?[0-9], SYSFS{serial}==DEF10BDD77EE, NAME=% k, SYMLINK+=BackUpDrive [...] ATTRS{serial

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine name is unknown. Just put the files into a gzipped tar archive and attach that. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2008, 16:34 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt of mine to build a new kernel not using an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 08:05 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): I'll extract `exact' messages if you are willing to spend some time on this. But I suspect we should begin another thread with a subject that makes it clear this is about building

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Mittwoch, den 03.12.2008, 20:29 -0800 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: Thanks for the idea. I'd not heard of them. TurboPrint is actually a port of an old Amiga software. They already were ahead of time in the printing area back then. OTOH, there was this article on german Heise Online (english

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2008, 07:10 + schrieb ext Mick: Almost every time I split a large file 1G into say 200k chunks, then ftp it to a server and then: cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 completefile ; md5sum -c completefile if fails. Checking the split files in turn I often find 1 or two chunks

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 01:15 +0100 schrieb ext AJ Spagnoletti: I have finally reached the point where I use enough USB media (external hard drives and flash drives) that I would like to set up a system to automount the media devices for me. I have read in the past about hal + ivman and a