Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Thanasis
on 12/15/2008 02:32 AM Grant wrote the following: On another system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to find one around 500GB. Is moving that sy

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Maximilian Bräutigam
Hi Damian, by the way rsnapshot is a more sophisticated tool to back up your root file system. it is based on rsync, but the bright idea behind is that it creates a history (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) with copying the hole system only one time. Maybe this is what you preferably want. Kind re

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Dale
Jeff Cranmer wrote: > It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem. > I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in > order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction. > > Jeff > > > Let me see if I understand correctly.

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
It looks like fixing the /etc/make.profile symlink fixed my problem. I'm still a little nervous about whether I need to run any other commands in order to prevent my system going wrong after making this correction. Jeff On Sunday 14 December 2008 09:48:47 pm Jeff Cranmer wrote: > Progress: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Progress: I've discovered that athlon64 is a valid gcc make flag, so I changed it back. I've also discovered that the /etc/make.profile symlink was pointing at the x86 default-linux profile set, not the amd64 profile. I'm attempting a recompile now with the symlink changed, and hopefully this

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.6.0.11 Failed to unpack

2008-12-14 Thread Jeff Cranmer
Thanks, That only adds more questions. My environment is amd64. It appears to have downloaded the i586 binary. Surely this is incorrect? my make.conf file contains the line CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp", which should trigger the 64 bit binaries to be downloaded and acted upon. The CFLA

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Grant wrote: My desktop currently runs one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to expand. The factors to consider are cost, capa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
> On another system which must be about 10 years old, I'd like to > replace the IDE hard drive with a high capacity drive. High-capacity > IDE drives are pretty much non-existent on newegg.com, but I'd like to > find one around 500GB. Is moving that system over to the new drive as > simple as plu

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >>> >>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 >>> >>> I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to >>> expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and >>> heat. >> RAID 0 will be t

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Thanasis
on 12/14/2008 11:11 PM damian wrote the following: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ That will also backup virtual filesystems like /p

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:47:22 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:58:17 +0100 > > > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > > > > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 22:11:28 +0100, damian wrote: > > That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. > > Add the -x option to avoid this. > OK, so the command should be > rsync -ax --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ > ? Yes, unless /home is on a s

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Dale
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > This system is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea >>> Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? >>> >> That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep he

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:58:17 +0100 > > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > > > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > > > 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. > > > > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > is there any good reason to use dmraid and not md raid? Yes. The RAID array was created long time ago and I need to keep the data. I don't have ~1TB to store it somewhere else, bring the array offline and use md raid. -- Aram Hăvărneanu

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Aram Havarneanu wrote: > Hello, > > I have followed this guide: > http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid and practically > everything is working. However, I want to make things better. > > I have used genkernel (with a custom config) because it is very e

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:58:17 +0100 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > > 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. > > > > With the 2.6.25 kernel, the boot proces displays > > > > ...[s

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:06:21 +0200, Aram Havarneanu wrote: > > Yes,as long as /boot is on a RAID1 or non-RAID partition. I use the > > former. > > /boot is on RAID0. Works perfectly with dmraid compiled as module and > loaded into initrd. Do you say that it will not work statically > compiled i

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread damian
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:09 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: > >> rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ > > That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. Add > the -x option to avoid this. OK, so

Re: [gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:24:23 +0100, damian wrote: > rsync -a --delete --relative --exclude '/home' / /mnt/wd-backups/ That will also backup virtual filesystems like /proc, /dev and/sys. Add the -x option to avoid this. -- Neil Bothwick I am Barney of Borg: I love you. You love me. We're

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Neil Bothwick wrote: > Yes,as long as /boot is on a RAID1 or non-RAID partition. I use the > former. /boot is on RAID0. Works perfectly with dmraid compiled as module and loaded into initrd. Do you say that it will not work statically compiled into the kernel if /boot is on RAID0 insetad of RAID1

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, David Relson wrote: > I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to > 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. > > With the 2.6.25 kernel, the boot proces displays > > ...[stuff]... > Loading modules > ... libata ... > ... scsi_wait_scan ...

[gentoo-user] kernel-2.6.27 boot problem

2008-12-14 Thread David Relson
I'm attempting to upgrade my kernel from 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 to 2.6.27-gentoo-r5 and have run into a snag. With the 2.6.25 kernel, the boot proces displays ...[stuff]... Loading modules ... libata ... ... scsi_wait_scan ... ... ahci ... ... sg ... ... ehci-hcd ... ... usb

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > >> This system > >> is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea > > > > Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? > > That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with > sound. The only fans are the CPU fa

[gentoo-user] How to make a backup of my gentoo installation

2008-12-14 Thread damian
... using rsync. Hello, Finally I got a (less than perfect but) functional gentoo installation and I would like to backup my root directory to an external hard-drive. But I have a doubt regarding the options to be passed to rsync. I think this command should perform what I want: rsync -a --d

Re: [gentoo-user] Work!

2008-12-14 Thread Karl Huysmans
I wouldn't mind personally :-) 2008/12/11 Rich Healey > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Karl Huysmans wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Don't know if it's appropriate to post this on this list, sorry if it's > > not. Anyway, this is serious: we are currently looking for a junior IT

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:42:30 -0800, Grant wrote: > > Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? > > That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with > sound. I wasn't suggesting putting the insulation over the air vents ;-) -- Neil Bothwick To err is human;

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:10:26 +0200, Aram Havarneanu wrote: > I wonder why can't I statically compile dmraid support in the kernel > and not require an initrd file. Is that possible? Yes,as long as /boot is on a RAID1 or non-RAID partition. I use the former. -- Neil Bothwick Programming Langua

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>> This system >> is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea > > Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? That's not a bad idea, but I don't want to keep heat in along with sound. The only fans are the CPU fan and power supply fan. My video card blew a capacitor

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:36:35 -0800, Grant wrote: > This system > is in the living room and the current hard drive can be hea Have you considered adding sound insultation to the case? -- Neil Bothwick I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me. signature.asc Descri

[gentoo-user] Postgresql: failed to initialize lc_messages to ""

2008-12-14 Thread Ricardo Bevilacqua
Hi to all, I'm setting up a new server for developing database-based applications. So, I emerged PostgreSQL, but the problem comes when I try to configure Postgre, this is what I get: - # emerge postgresql --config Configuring pkg... *

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to install NetBeans 6.5 doesn't work

2008-12-14 Thread Yannick Mortier
2008/12/13 Alan McKinnon : > On Saturday 13 December 2008 23:09:58 Yannick Mortier wrote: >> Hello! >> I'm currently trying to install NetBeans 6.5 but it just doesn't work. >> I always get a block when I try to to this. >> >> [blocks B ] dev-java/ant-tasks ("dev-java/ant-tasks" is blocking >>

[gentoo-user] Booting from dmraid

2008-12-14 Thread Aram Havarneanu
Hello, I have followed this guide: http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/RAID/NVRAID_with_dmraid and practically everything is working. However, I want to make things better. I have used genkernel (with a custom config) because it is very easy to set up dmraid apparently. I am not happy with this becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: >>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >>> >>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 >>> >>> I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to >>> expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and >>> heat. >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread damian
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 4:52 PM, Grant wrote: >>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >>> >>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 >> Out of space with 320G? Have you considered putting your multimedia in >> an external hard drive? > > What would be the benefit of us

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-14 Thread CJoeB
Paul Hartman wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > >> On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I >>> go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to enable AMD Hyper-Transport?

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>> Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's >> Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU? >> >> - Grant > > no, it should work even if you disable interrupts for hypertransport devices. > It doesn't harm turning it on. Great, thank you. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 >> >> I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to >> expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and >> heat. > RAID 0 will be twice as

Re: [gentoo-user] Do I need to enable AMD Hyper-Transport?

2008-12-14 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Sonntag 14 Dezember 2008, Grant wrote: > Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's > Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU? > > - Grant no, it should work even if you disable interrupts for hypertransport devices. It doesn't harm turning it on.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2008, at 16:31, Grant wrote: ... A RAID won't cause more heat or noise than a second drive but it will also How much perceived noise does a second drive create? See my other reply. I'd say if you don't care about redundancy, you should go for a single 1TB disk. I'd prefer a Sa

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Stroller
On 14 Dec 2008, at 02:49, Grant wrote: My desktop currently runs one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and heat. ..

[gentoo-user] Do I need to enable AMD Hyper-Transport?

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
Do I need to do anything for my system to take advantage of AMD's Hyper-Transport on my 6000+ CPU? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 >> >> I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to >> expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and >> heat. > > So you don't care abou

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-14 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:25 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: >> Hi, >> >> As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I >> go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even >> though I have the Flash Play

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Grant
>> My desktop currently runs one of these: >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 > Out of space with 320G? Have you considered putting your multimedia in > an external hard drive? What would be the benefit of using an external drive instead of an internal drive? He

Re: [gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 14 December 2008 17:17:15 CJoeB wrote: > Hi, > > As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I > go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even > though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the > Air Miles site w

[gentoo-user] Question Re: Flash and Firefox

2008-12-14 Thread CJoeB
Hi, As a Canadian, I subscribe to a loyalty program called Airmiles. When I go into the Airmiles site, it does not display properly in Firefox, even though I have the Flash Player installed. I just emerged Opera and the Air Miles site works just fine. Is this a bug with Firefox and should I be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ebuild for recent ATI driver, whom to go to?

2008-12-14 Thread Miguel Ramos
2008/12/14 James : > should have said "profiler" > Breaking down algorithms and make a fundamentally better > algo for a gpu, will require a really good "profiler" to > imho. So far I'd be happy at being able to run something and leave the evaluation of gains at a theoretical level. >> Anyway, it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Alex Schuster
Neil Bothwick writes: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > for I in $(seq 1 15) ; do > > If you're using bash or zsh,you can speed this up with > > for I in {1..15}; do You can even use C style: for (( i=1; i <= 15; i++ )); do Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:47:51 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That's why I suggested them :-) I use them a lot, especially when I > have to run the same set of commands on 15 different hosts, then I do > something like: > > for I in $(seq 1 15) ; do If you're using bash or zsh,you can speed this up

[gentoo-user] Xvnc Terminal Server doesn't work

2008-12-14 Thread Pau Peris
I've followed that link to creeate a "Xvnc Terminal Server": http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-72893-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html * My machines has no Diplay connected to it and mouse, but to test it i use to connect a monitor so i can check everything works fine. * Xdm works proprly

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 14 December 2008 12:47:14 Florian Philipp wrote: > Then I would use it (and the older disk) in an LVM volume group. LVM > also supports mirroring (like RAID1) and striping (like RAID0) on a > per-volume basis. That means that you could keep most of your data > somewhere on the TB disk and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread Florian Philipp
Grant schrieb: My desktop currently runs one of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 I'm pretty much out of space and I'm trying figure out the best way to expand. The factors to consider are cost, capacity, speed, noise, and heat. So you don't care about se

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Storage expansion options

2008-12-14 Thread damian
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 3:49 AM, Grant wrote: > My desktop currently runs one of these: > > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148140 Out of space with 320G? Have you considered putting your multimedia in an external hard drive?

[gentoo-user] WCCP on gentoo

2008-12-14 Thread Suranga Kasthuriarachchi
Dear all, if anyone have idea or document material link about setup wccp on gentoo kindly guide me, Thanks Suranga

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 14 December 2008 11:06:39 Mick wrote: >  md5sum -c token*.md5sum are the easiest on this occasion, although Alan's > last two commands are indeed "insanely useful"!  ha!  They will be saving > me hours of typing in the future.  :) That's why I suggested them :-) I use them a lot, especia

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Mick
On Sunday 14 December 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:59:44 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > > Why not just a simple bash one-liner > > > > for i in token{a..z}; do md5sum -c $i; done > > What wrong with > > md5sum -c token{a..z} Thank you all for your suggestions. I think think th

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] One line script for md5sum

2008-12-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:59:44 -0500, Willie Wong wrote: > Why not just a simple bash one-liner > > for i in token{a..z}; do md5sum -c $i; done What wrong with md5sum -c token{a..z} -- Neil Bothwick All Scottish food is based on a dare. signature.asc Description: PGP signature