Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

2005-06-05 Thread rob3
Holly Bostick wrote: maxim wexler schreef: Remove the root (hd0,1) line. That should (I hope) let you boot gentoo from the floppy. Arrrgh! Now when I choose Gentoo from the menu: Booting 'Gentoo' kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 Error 15: File not found Press any key to continue...

[gentoo-user] Grub nonsense

2005-06-04 Thread rob3
My $million advice. Go to www..gnu.org, and just download the Grub source and compile it. Just make a note somewhere on your copy of the Gentoo manual (you did print it out didn't you? haha) that grub is not in the emerge system. Problem solved. Once you know where all of grub resides (locate

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-06-03 Thread rob3
Richard Fish wrote: rob3 wrote: Hi guys, I am very interested in encrypted directories and/or disks. Right now I am using ext3. Where can I find more info? The docs page at Gentoo? Probably, but someone else will have to point you to that. For dm-crypt: http://www.saout.de/misc

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
. Sincerely, Rob - --- Original Message --- - From: :gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, 31 May 2005 09:31:01 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Gaffney wrote: rob3 wrote: Where do you get this? I couldn't find

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2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Hi all, I need some help migrating from the r6 to the r9 kernel. I copied my .config file into the r9 directory and tried to make menuconfig, but I just get the error message saying something to the effect that }. is missing. What am I missing? Many Thanks, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] CFS Howto

2005-05-31 Thread rob3
Holly Bostick wrote: Shawn Singh schreef: Hey all, I was attempting to encrypt my home directory using the CFS Howto as my guide, but I am not getting far at all... When trying to emerge cfs, I'm getting the following message: convert usr # emerge app-crypt/cfs-1.4.1.14 Calculating

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-#!/bin/sh # ###########################################################################

2005-05-30 Thread rob3
# INET_IFACE=eth0 # # Information pertaining to DHCP over the Internet, if needed. # # Set DHCP variable to no if you don't get IP from DHCP. If you get DHCP # over the Internet set this variable to yes, and set up the proper IP # address

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-#!/bin/sh # ###########################################################################

2005-05-30 Thread rob3
rob3 wrote: # INET_IFACE=eth0 # # Information pertaining to DHCP over the Internet, if needed. # # Set DHCP variable to no if you don't get IP from DHCP. If you get DHCP # over the Internet set this variable to yes, and set up the proper IP

[gentoo-user] OT- NSA Linux

2005-05-30 Thread rob3
Where do you get this? I couldn't find it on the www.nsa.gov site. What am I missing? Thanks, Rob -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-21 Thread rob3
A. Khattri wrote: On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote: Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that solved the problem CLOCK=local. This does not appear in the Gentoo manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted a doc bug report, so that no one

[gentoo-user] last problem OpenOffice not working from user acct.

2005-05-21 Thread rob3
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that the setup is aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files. Rob. --

[gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-20 Thread rob3
I looked at adjtime. I alredy have 0.0 as the first entry, so that mailing list thread does not apply to me. Thanks, Rob. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Clock going Crazy

2005-05-20 Thread rob3
Thank you!!! My rc.conf file contained no CLOCK= line, so I missed it. This seems like it was overlooked or a bug in the install process. Now it appears that my Gentoo OS is keeping time. However, it is yet to be seen whether the BIOS keeps its time since it appeared to also be a problem. So

[gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-19 Thread rob3
I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand new mobo in it. So it seems crazy that the battery would be dead

Re: [gentoo-user] Clock going crazy

2005-05-19 Thread rob3
David D. Rea wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2005 10:15 am, rob3 said: I am not certain if this is a Gentoo problem, a bios problem, a mobo problem, or what. I just want to know if anyone else has seen it or has it now. I can't keep the clock on the right time. This Dell 8600 Laptop has a brand

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice 2.0

2005-05-11 Thread rob3
S. Schwartz wrote: Michael W. Holdeman wrote: And I built OpenOffice once, it ended up running slower than OpenOffice-bin... How come? I have noticed the same effect with Mozilla-software. At least I get the feeling that the binaries are a little faster -- I can't really say for sure.

[gentoo-user] OpenOffice now works for me

2005-05-09 Thread rob3
Many thanks for the help with OpenOffice. I now have it working. Its a great program. Wow, MS Word files and .pdf. I haven't even scratched the surface of it all yet. The OpenOffice people have sure done a great job. The Genoo mailing lists are great. They are on par with the FreeBSD and

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-05 Thread rob3
Nick Rout wrote: There clearly is interest. May I suggest the gentoo wiki as the place for this? On Wed, 04 May 2005 15:28:29 -0700 rob3 wrote: Hi all, If there is sufficient interest, I can write up detailed instructions for setting up an encrypted home directory. Unlike Windoze, since

[gentoo-user] HOWTO Encrypt Your Home Directory Using CFS

2005-05-05 Thread rob3
OK, I think I have an accessable draft copy of the doc at www.gentoo-wiki.com/User:Roblytle. It seems to be available anonymously, and editable. I am no wiki expert so its likely something is screwed up. I'd like it to end up in the HOWTO Security and Anonymity category, but I have no idea how

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the Cryptographic File System as your home directory

2005-05-04 Thread rob3
Daevid Vincent wrote: I'm interested too. I would love to have this on my notebook in case the worst happens. I can also test this in a Gentoo VMWare that I use. If you'd like the image, I can ftp it to you somewhere. Its' about 900MB zipped. Daevid. Hi David, Yes, I use a notebook