On Friday 28 Mar 2014 21:08:02 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it
is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the
LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too
AFAIR.
Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in
/etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login.
Ah yes, I see what you mean.
On Saturday 29 Mar 2014 16:41:10 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too
AFAIR.
Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in
/etc/passwd, so bash
To auto log-in, I use a feature of agetty:
On /etc/inittab:
# TERMINALS
# c1:12345:respawn:/usr/bin/fbi -a -noverbose --nocomments
/etc/splash/natural_altec/images/silent-1024x768.jpg
c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux
c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux
On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount
partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical
drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the
initramfs part
Everyday learning something that's why I like Linux and, in special,
Gentoo.
Thanks
Francisco
2014-03-28 12:26 GMT-03:00 Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com:
On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes
Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount
partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical
drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the
initramfs part of the boot).
It was basically like this:
- install a bare bones
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a
method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all
the extras I wanted in, e.g.,
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it
is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the
LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser.
I had a poke around and didn't
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a
method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all
the extras I wanted in, e.g.,
On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my
USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive
lives long.
Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the
traditional
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, Brian Hesdorfer zerop...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my
USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive
lives long.
Has anybody tried
On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, Brian Hesdorfer zerop...@gmail.com
mailto:zerop...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my
USB 3 pen drive. I'll use
On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, Brian Hesdorfer zerop...@gmail.com
mailto:zerop...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
Hi,
Since I don't have
On 22/03/2014 15:12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, Brian Hesdorfer zerop...@gmail.com
mailto:zerop...@gmail.com
On 22-Mar-2014 6:56 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/03/2014 15:12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 18:42:46 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
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What other distros are suited for this use case?
I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a method
I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all the extras I
wanted in, e.g.,
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 18:42:46 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote:
---8
What other distros are suited for this use case?
I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a method
I found on the Web to
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a
method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all
the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/local/bin.
It works well, except that I haven't found
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