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 for the first
times. Why isn't --noclear set by default?
Once I set this and rebooted I sa
> There was no installer other than the handbook.
There was the former Gentoo installer project [1] but it was
discontinued in 2009. The source is still available [2]
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Installer/Old
[2] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/gli.git/about/
J. Rutkowski
On 2015-08-07, James wrote:
> gmail.com> writes:
>
>
>> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if
>> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2].
>
>> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user
>> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user
>
> Y
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 14:51:24 + (UTC), James` wrote:
> > That was it, I couldn't remember the name.
>
>
> H (GRP option),
>
> Can anyone dig out a link to that install medium? I'm unable to find it.
> I have lots of old i(3/4/5/6_86 gear I can revisit such old installs::
> and Sven has ar
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 09:29:32 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > Now you know why I boot directly from the ISO in /boot ;-)
> That is obviously a convenience, but my main use case for a rescue CD
> is when there is something messed up with my bootloader/disks/etc.
> So, I'd prefer to have it on a USB s
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:53 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
>
> I don't need to be worried, that this will happen with Gentoo either
> anytime soon?
What? That we'll take a vote that some anti-systemd folks won't like?
It has already happened - package maintainers aren't permitted to
revert additions of
On Friday, August 07, 2015 9:44:50 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> Mick [15-08-07 20:04]:
> > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 for
Am 08.08.2015 um 00:28 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> Udev installs into such a path, and currently does not depend on
> systemd (in fact, they block each other).
They block each other because udev is part of systemd. So if you install
systemd you already have udev and don't need the separate udev packag
On Friday, August 07, 2015 8:33:17 PM waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>
> > On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Mick wrote:
> > > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I
> > > > have. Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Heiko Baums wrote:
> If packages that don't need systemd as a hard dependency or are
> installed with USE=-systemd write anything which is important for them
> or could break them even without systemd into one of those systemd
> directories which I have in my INSTAL
On Friday, August 07, 2015 6:58:47 PM waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > >
> > > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been
> > > > swallowed by /dev/nu
On Friday, August 07, 2015 7:01:29 PM Mick wrote:
> On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The
> > > formatting was already don
Mick gmail.com> writes:
> > http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/GRP
Interestingly, I found this link::
http://netlibrary.net/articles/Gentoo_Reference_Platform
> > Not sure if the gentoo Attic contains such images.
> Hmm ... this cvs is empty:
yep.
> https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/g
Am 07.08.2015 um 21:46 schrieb Heiko Baums:
> That has nothing to do with eudev or anything else. So if you don't want
> to have a systemd-free system
Typo: Should obviously be without the "don't".
Am 07.08.2015 um 00:10 schrieb Rich Freeman:
> Like I said - if you want to go this route be prepared to tweak half
> your system to keep it working.
Why would I need to tweak half my system? That sounds exactly like those
Poetterix fanboys, particularly when they forced systemd on every user
of c
Mick [15-08-07 20:04]:
> On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The
> > > formatting was already done by the manufacturer.
> >
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 19:32:19 Mick wrote:
> On Friday 07 Aug 2015 15:51:24 James` wrote:
> > Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > > > > That's what Gentoo did years ago. You could download a DVD with
> > > > > prebuilt binary packages. It meant you could follow the handbook,
> > > > > but wit
Mick wrote:
> On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Mick wrote:
> > > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I
> > > have. Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was
> > > automatically aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to
> > >
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 15:51:24 James` wrote:
> Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > > > That's what Gentoo did years ago. You could download a DVD with
> > > > prebuilt binary packages. It meant you could follow the handbook, but
> > > > without changing use flags from the default profiles for
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 00:23:35 waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > I was wondering similar questions regarding a 32G flash card I have.
> > Using fdisk to partition it the starting sector was automatically
> > aligned with 2048 as it fdisk has been improved to deal with 4KB
> > sector driv
On Friday 07 Aug 2015 04:27:15 Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thursday, August 06, 2015 6:18:59 PM meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > for my tablet PC I used a used 32GB FAT32 formatted SDcard. The
> > formatting was already done by the manufacturer.
> > Then I screwed it up and had to do
gmail.com> writes:
> > If I'm monkeying around with my email config and I'm not sure if
> > everything is still okay, I usually use gmane [1,2].
> > [1] http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user
> > [2] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Yep, gmane as a front-end to gentoo user
Alec Ten Harmsel wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> >
> > > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been
> > > swallowed by /dev/null.
> >
> > I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some
On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 06:25:11PM +0200, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
>
> > I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been swallowed by
> > /dev/null.
>
> I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some posts
> in the last 2 or 3 days, but i
Fernando Rodriguez wrote:
> I wrote a long reply to this and it appears to have been swallowed by
> /dev/null.
I have read it, so it wasn't swallowed. I also have written some posts
in the last 2 or 3 days, but it seems that everyone ignored them. I
think the reason is that I'm not very popula
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > > That's what Gentoo did years ago. You could download a DVD with
> > > prebuilt binary packages. It meant you could follow the handbook, but
> > > without changing use flags from the default profiles for that DVD,
> > > and get a running system in no tim
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:13 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 08:18:40 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
>
>> So, if you have a USB stick that won't boot, consider that the problem
>> may actually lie in your BIOS...
>
> Now you know why I boot directly from the ISO in /boot ;-)
>
That is ob
On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 08:18:40 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> So, if you have a USB stick that won't boot, consider that the problem
> may actually lie in your BIOS...
Now you know why I boot directly from the ISO in /boot ;-)
--
Neil Bothwick
Roses are red, violets are blue; I'm schizophrenic and
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> Yes, I remember about your rescue ISO. I may do the same once I work out how
> to incorporate my own customisations into it. Maybe that should be the first
> thing to do. I have a USB stick like that, but it refuses to boot any more.
>
I'v
On Friday 07 August 2015 10:48:02 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:49:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Yep, but as stated by Rich there isn't much to a btrfs raid 1 install
> > > aside from mkfs.btrfs, building btrfs support into the
> > > kernel, the slightly different fstab entr
On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:40:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> >> Why is root=/dev/ram0 real_root= in the sample/prototype?
>>
>> > That's for using an initrd, specifically the one produced by
>> > genkernel. With no initrd you simply give the ac
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:08:16 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>>> % cat /etc/portage/env/ccache.conf
>>> FEATURES="ccache"
>>>
>>> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
>>> app-office/libreoffice ccache.conf disk-tmpdir.conf
>>>
>>> And don't forget to emerge ccache ;-)
>> Hmm ... ma
On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 09:49:24 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Yep, but as stated by Rich there isn't much to a btrfs raid 1 install
> > aside from mkfs.btrfs, building btrfs support into the
> > kernel, the slightly different fstab entry, and using an initramfs
> > (dracut makes it easy).
>
> T
On Fri, 07 Aug 2015 04:40:12 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > Didn't we cover this already? You have GRUB installed to boot your
> > other distros, all you need to do is add a stanza for Gentoo to your
> > existing menu.lst.
>
> Subject only got touched. That's all I *need* to do. :-)
Yes :)
> M
On Thursday 06 August 2015 12:09:20 Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > First, btrfs balance. I had no idea that was needed, so of course I didn't
> > include it in my attempts. Could that be why, on booting, the kernel
> > couldn't mount the file system?
>
> I
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 --as
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-boot/grub-static' without
> first looking for any instr
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 17:35:38 -0700, walt wrote:
> > It varies, but it can more than halve the time taken. Well worth the
> > minute or two it took to set it up to happen automatically.
>
> You appear to be building claws-mail from git (as do I), which seems in
> theory a good use of ccache. Am
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