Re: [gentoo-user] split-usr

2024-01-12 Thread Felix Kuperjans
s/features/merged-usr/ From what you're describing I think you you're not properly masking the split-usr USE flag, i.e. check especially use.force and use.mask. Cheers Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
On 2022-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote: That doesn't work. It shows the size of the drive as the "uncompressed" size and 0 as compressed: # gzip -clt foo $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 12923 Feb 22 07:51 foo $ gzip foo $ ls -l foo.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users

Re: [gentoo-user] How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
(dd for example): gzip -clt Should print the compressed size in bytes, although by reading through the entire stream once. -- Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] best rss reader?

2020-04-20 Thread Felix Kuperjans
- however, many others offer similar features as well. Best Regards Felix Am 19.04.20 um 23:15 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: > hi - could everyone share his rss reading setup? > > i have newsboat, but it got masked. so i'm now > starting to look around again. > > i'm open

[gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
. :-( -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-08 03:43 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, especially someone who has just gotten a new installation up

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-07 08:56 (UTC+0100): On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:34:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: I got ahead of things I suppose on the bootloader instructions, which include no example for Grub 0.97. I did emerge -s grub to identify the package name, then did 'emerge --ask sys

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
snowballs. Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-06 09:10 (UTC+0100): On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:59:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: 1-Distrowatch is what lead me to believe I could do something I wished to do. Is it DistroWatch that led you to believe that what you wanted wasn't the default to start

[gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:57 (UTC-0600): Felix Miata composed: Are you sure you read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote? Pages like LMGTFY *leads to*, not LMGTFY. I was where that *leads to* yesterday and the day before while progressing generally through wiki.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
installed Gentoo only once previously, more than 4 years ago. -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2015-08-05 22:23 (UTC-0400): After reading https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ trying to find one

[gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
error message. ??? -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 10:23:03 PM Felix Miata wrote: ... all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest pre-Grub2): ... What makes you think it's arch agnostic when it says sh4-unknown-linux-gnu

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal installation CD iso is where?,

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:02 (UTC-0600): 2015-08-05 22:40 GMT-06:00 Felix Miata ocmposed: Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): http://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+gentoo Pages like that leads to are like Windows and Sourceforge software hosts where after

[gentoo-user] 'tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 --xattrs' failed with unknown option --xattrs

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 21:36 (UTC+0100): On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:32:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: I've yet to figure out how to get a list of all installed packages akin to 'rpm -qa | sort', so I really don't know what my starting configuration is. qlist -ICv -bash: qlist

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
James composed on 2015-08-04 21:07 (UTC): Interesting choice:: how do you like your choices, Felix? Choices are a double edged sword. The more you have, the more power you have, but the harder to choose, especially while overwhelmed by the unfamiliar. Your later provided ungrading old

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 18:44 (UTC+0100): On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: 6-# emerge portage This produced a longish warning: !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most merges. !!! It should point into a profile within

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): Felix Miata wrote: That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot on one HD with 12 installations of Fedora and openSUSE. I'd like

[gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
3250579 1302593 1784125 43% /home /dev/sda13 1625241248895 1294417 17% /usr/local -- The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive. Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
/Pipelight Pipelight looks interesting; saved the bookmark. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-10 Thread felix
for 15-20 years and see no reason to enrich Boll Gates' pension. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

2013-07-13 Thread felix
=localhost:0; fi xmopts= while [ $1 = -x ]; do xmopts=$xmopts $2 shift;shift done echo $@ | xmessage -bg green -fg red -file - -title Alert -nearmouse -default okay $xmopts -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch

Re: [gentoo-user] texlive-basic

2013-05-02 Thread Felix Kuperjans
-emerged... Thank you Greetings Silvio Regards, Felix

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade and baselayout 2.2

2013-04-29 Thread felix
disk but relies on the grub 1 boot setup, and I'd just as soon not upgrade to grub 2 ever if possible. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox guest eth0/enp0s3 problem

2013-04-04 Thread Felix Kuperjans
#461527 Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?

2013-03-24 Thread Felix Kuperjans
/Fedora/..., kernel provided by netboot/openvz/Xen domUs or build them remotely will almost never need linux-sources installed. BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, increasing their size quite significantly. Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?

2013-03-24 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:41:18 +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, increasing their size quite significantly. Stage 3 archives only contains necessary packages for which there is no choice. They don't include

Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod

2013-03-23 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Mike Gilbert: On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson dan.johans...@dmj.nu wrote: Hello, Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support. On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when compiled complains about missing modules-support

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-09 Thread felix
, it's what your employer does to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get the value down to nothing. /nitpick Depreciated is perfectly cromulent in this instance. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- SOLVED

2012-12-27 Thread felix
it will be in 3.7.2. Thanks to everyone who helped here, especially with git bisect. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-26 Thread felix
is weak, since I mostly use it for personal projects. Work only uses subversion, blecch. Didn't know about git tag, and got bisect help doesn't mention it. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe

[gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread felix
a39a26dc3f6c0b21433688420a820b121a921cec M include -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- patch works

2012-12-26 Thread felix
with my normal config, including encfs and a lot of other gorp, and will try it in the morning. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
works. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
for boot, but they do take up /dev/sd? namespace. Might be interesting to try Bruce Hill's idea of a pruned 3.7.1 kernel without that driver. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
. So I guess I will read up on bisecting. I know the principle, but have never tried it. I suppose one starting point is make sure a pure-vanilla 3.6.10 kernel boots. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
. Even have to power off and wait a while before it resets properly for a 3.6.10 reboot. So I think it is bisecting for me. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
and the 3.7.0 fails, then start bisecting. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
include 3.7.0? Google research continues. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
at the end. As for the cookies, shrug so many sites require cookies and/or javascript these days that I won't waste my time trying to find one that doesn't. I just make sure they are temporary. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: Would you consider our own pastebin from portage? Sure, in progress. I'll have to read up on this pastebin stuff. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
this to the Dropbox dir. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
/ -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
(X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER) [N/m/?] (NEW) m -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
/memtest86plus/memtest.bin Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 minutes or so. Starting the emerge etc. But why would this be a memory problem when it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 minutes or so. Let it run a complete pass, about an hour, no errors. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-17 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
loaded bad firmware, or 3.7.0 is broken, I have no idea. It could well be something unrelated to 3.7.0. My goal for today is to try to get keyboard and disk working, then boot with 3.6.8. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
years back :-( -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
and clobbered everything it could get its hands on. Well, I'll try again in a bit. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
incorrectly and tell it to load some firmware? Without access to the disk, I can't tell. I don't remember any question about loading BIOS firmware, and can't see why the kernel would even care about that. The whole mess makes no sense. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
at the same time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge that failed so you lost both, basically. Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-14 Thread felix
I finally ran out of excuses to not reboot after a night powered off, and it did. It's all running normally now, but I think it's time for me to take the hint, grab a clue, and start researching a replacement. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-14 Thread felix
in the standby generator shed, but I've rebooted twice since that storm without any problems. I guess it will remain a mystery. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-03 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] Creating KVM image using existing gentoo partition

2012-09-25 Thread felix
everything over to the real partition. But that sounds ugly for some reason. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating KVM image using existing gentoo partition

2012-09-25 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Felix Kuperjans
to that when I get around to rebooting again. I'm not sure on how I will end up connecting it yet. In case you have no USB sticks and never want to use any USB storage device, you won't need udisks at all, try disabling the udisks USE flags on your desktop packages (esp. gvfs). Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type? -- grub2 comments

2012-09-15 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
stage3 tarball, the ftp choice was gentoo/releases/x86/current-stage3. This was about Sep 10. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
an entry for the gentoo install. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread felix
Mouse-to-mouse resuscitation? Unless it's headless. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
, the two drives on it are unrecognized. Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
-- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
the patience :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've

[gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
it? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
of use. I didn't see it in 'man pvcreate' and had other things to do for the time being. I guess LVM is not like a bicycle.. Yes it does. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
hiding the IDE drive so that I had to trace cables to find it. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

[gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by me. Running ~amd64. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
on the front? How well do they work? I suppose must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives connected to one? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
into the mainboard's SATA ports. Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
? No USB 3 on the motherboard. I tried a USB 3 enclosure but got zero response from Linux when plugging it in. Didn't even show up in /var/log/messages. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
now if it did. Doubt I would have given it a second thought if it had no external power supply. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E

[gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
properly? I'm not interested in any NAS or other expensive solutions; I'd just as soon buy a cheap modern system and lots of USB 3.0 disk enclosures. But I'd rather not go that route yet. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:35:03PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: 32bit or 64 bit system? Dual opteron, ~amd64. Kernel options for large file systems? Yes. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
you updated the BIOS to the latest available version? No, didn't even think about that. I've never upgraded BIOS an any of my systems. It's a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro. Guess I'll google for that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
for my motherboard. Didn't see any obvious fixes for SATA size. I also don't remember my BIOS version, I'll have to check that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
, so it's the kernel. I didn't try booting with them. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
, but not on my system. If possible try a BIOS upgrade... if not you can always try this (no guarantees though): http://www.addonics.com/products/ad2u3pci.php Interesting ... Cheap enough to be worth trying. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any analogous steps for the 4TB drives? I don't remember seeing any jumpers at all. I'll take another look when I get back there. (Cripes, that's a lot of data. One drive, bigger than

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
, but I'll have to refresh my memory before getting this card. Thanks for the lead. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
rescue/install CD's will recognize the drive/enclosure combination? Compiled as a module, and not loaded. Hadn't thought of that. I'll try it when I get back there. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon

[gentoo-user] fuse-encfs and decoding single filenames

2012-06-08 Thread felix
to decrypt a single filename for me, so I can find out which plaintext files may have been garbled. I can probably find out by trial and error, but a simple command line translation would be nice. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only -- DISK FAILURE

2012-05-15 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
of any package changes that would have caused this? Neither google nor the gentoo bug search found anything interesting for encfs or fuser. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

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