Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 23:40 -0400, C Lee Davis wrote: > Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of > > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or > > whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go > > (e

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Dale
Dan Farrell wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:35:22 -0700 > "Julian Simioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might >>> be pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cach

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread C Lee Davis
Daevid Vincent wrote: > Why does everyone always assume people are pirates or in search of > warez. I don't see why someone couldn't put up a copy of XP or Vista or > whatever that is unactivated, yet all installed and ready to go > (everything but the CPU is emulated in VMWare, so it could be poss

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: memtest fails, but is it the RAM?

2007-07-10 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 00:40 +, James wrote: > Not sure this is useful, but, if you can get the system to boot, you > and look more closely at the memory specifics with the 'lshw' command. hey, neat command. The system boots knoppix and windows fine, but I don't have gentoo on it (yet :) and

Re: [gentoo-user] System for PIII now lives in K7; any way to rebuild without full reinstall?

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:31:33 -0500 Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Farrell wrote: > > Howdy folks. Today I have a fun exercise but am short on ideas. > > Any suggestions? > > > > I have an old hard drive from my router, a Pentium III. Now i've > > gone and put that hard drive in an Athlo

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:49:42 -0400 Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 070709 Dan Farrell wrote: > > 070710 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> KVM's are OS independent; they can get you into the BIOS or > >> console; you can see boot messages; network doesn't need to be > >> workin

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:35:22 -0700 "Julian Simioni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/9/07, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Agreed, of course, but one nice thing about extra ram that it might > > be pertinent to mention is that it can be used to cache and > > significantly reduce har

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-10 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:09:07 +0200 "pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Some information what I've used to remove GRUB from MBR. In windows > (don't beat me) there are tools 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' and Ive used > them. You could try 'fdisk /mbr' from windows command line. That should replace your MBR

[gentoo-user] cifs mount fails

2007-07-10 Thread David Harel
Need help on cifs mount. I do: mount -t cifs //ben/d /mnt/extern/1 -o user=smbusr,password=whatever I keep getting "CIFS VFS: cifs_mount failed w/return code = -5". I use Kernel 2.6.20 gentoo-r8. Kernel config has: CONFIG_CIFS=y mount -t smbfs works fine but... (open fails when file name is in

RE: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread Daevid Vincent
> > I do have a couple of WinXP pro licenses but hoped there might be a > > ready made VMappliance I can just download and fireup. > > Download Windows XP? Do you actually assume, that somebody > will now post a link to some Warez site, or what? You can hunt here and maybe find something: http://

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread Alexander Skwar
· [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How can I go about running a VM on gentoo that runs win XP pro? I don't understand the question. You install VMware. You start VMware. In VMware, you install WinXP. > I do have a couple of WinXP pro licenses but hoped there might be a > ready made VMap

[gentoo-user] [OT vm WinXp] Can WinXp be Vm app from gentoo?

2007-07-10 Thread reader
How can I go about running a VM on gentoo that runs win XP pro? I do have a couple of WinXP pro licenses but hoped there might be a ready made VMappliance I can just download and fireup. I have the pay for vmware for linux installed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

2007-07-10 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
On 7/10/07, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the problem is on PATA drivers! It seems that it doesn't load any chipset driver... I used the old config as suggested without changes... Or must I change something in fstab??? You should change your kernel's config e.g. with menuconf

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrade kernel

2007-07-10 Thread Luigi Pinna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alle lunedì 09 luglio 2007, Vladimir Rusinov ha scritto: > On 7/9/07, Luigi Pinna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have problems to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.18-r6 to upper > > versions. If I use my 2.6.18-r6 config file and I do a make, after > > reb

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:44:14PM +0300, Penguin Lover Aleksey V. Kunitskiy squawked: > This DVD-R was created under windows with nero, not by me. > I tried to set iocharset=windows-1251 but it didn't help. I know on that > windows system is windows-1251 charset. I still see ugly names, and I ha

Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:

2007-07-10 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > >> Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >>> On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
> iso9660:1999, afaik, has agnostic to filename encodings. This probably > means that you need to know what the iocharset. If the disc was > created under the en_US.utf8 environment, -o utf8 should give you the > right encoding back. > Lastly, why iso9660 and not UDF on your dvd-r? This DVD-R was

[gentoo-user] portage doesn't like whitespaces

2007-07-10 Thread Stefán István
Hello! I wanted to make a big update on my gentoo system, but I got error when reaching x11-base/x11-drm-20060608 package. It compiles successfully, but the installation fails: >>> Install x11-drm-20060608 into /var/tmp/portage/x11-base/x11-drm-20060608/image/ category x11-base * Installing D

Re: [gentoo-user] hald is stuck

2007-07-10 Thread Alessandro del Gallo
Michael George ha scritto: On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 06:46:38PM -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 19:26 -0400, Michael George wrote: What state is the process in? If it's in an "Uninterruptible sleep" (D) mode then it won't die/continue until it gets whatever I/O it's expecting.

Re: [gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:59:21PM +0300, Penguin Lover Aleksey V. Kunitskiy squawked: > I have a problem with mounting DVD-R in iso9660:1999 format. Folders are all > in lowercase and folders with non-english character are displayed ugly. > I tried: iso9660:1999, afaik, has agnostic to filename

[gentoo-user] DVD and iso9660:1999

2007-07-10 Thread Aleksey V. Kunitskiy
Hi, I have a problem with mounting DVD-R in iso9660:1999 format. Folders are all in lowercase and folders with non-english character are displayed ugly. I tried: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp -o ro,iocharset=windows-1251 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/tmp -o ro,iocharset=utf-8 # mount -t

Re: [gentoo-user] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
070709 Philip Webb wrote: > I'm planning to build a 3rd machine later this summer. Thanks for all the advice & suggestions, which I have recorded & will consider carefully before actually buying stuff in August. Any further thoughts from anyone wb added gratefully to the file. I suspect Gentoo use

[SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] selecting boot(active?) partition

2007-07-10 Thread pat
On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:17:50 +0100, Mick wrote > On Wednesday 04 July 2007 08:51, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Hello pat, > > > > > Problem is that when there're any non dos/windows partitions the boot > > > from recovery partition failed. So, I need to set recovery partition > > > bootable and remove a

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] building a machine for Gentoo

2007-07-10 Thread Philip Webb
070709 Dan Farrell wrote: > 070710 Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> KVM's are OS independent; they can get you into the BIOS or console; >> you can see boot messages; network doesn't need to be working >> even though it's called a network, sometimes it doesn't ;) > that's another huge p

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-10 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:49:50 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > I see. What I do is to embed the initramfs into the kernel image. Ah yes, I'd forgotten about that option. > Works > fine as long as everything you need to setup / is compiled into the > kernel statically. There's also one scenario wher