Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook
I've installed other distributions of Linux before on a MacbookPro and have found that installing GRUB to the boot record of sda is a Bad Idea. Instead, try installing GRUB to the partition that Gentoo is currently on (or wherever your /boot partition is mounted) such as (hd0,3). Also, make sure that GRUB is compiled with support for the filesystem that you desire to use; I know for a fact that you have to have a particularly new version of GRUB to support EXT4 filesystems. On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 5:18 AM, . ivd...@gmail.com wrote: I've done it. Don't use grub. Use refit and elilo. At least that's what I used, but it was a couple of years ago. I'm already using rEFIt to switch between Mac OS X and GNU/Linux. Could you be more specific? What should I do to fix it?
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo + Macbook
On 18 January 2012 15:23, Fernando Freire freir...@up.edu wrote: snip Installing grub (emerge grub), and installing it to the Boot Record (MBR) of a drive are very different things. Do you mean; grub root (hd0,0) and NOT grub setup(hd0) ? Hmm, I first installed grub from the repository and then did a grub-install --no-floppy to (in my case) hd(0,3) which worked perfectly fine with my 2008 MBP. Refit correctly identifies the Linux partition and when it has done its thing it drops me into GRUB, and of course from there into the operating system. Perhaps I'm using the terminology wrong, sorry for the confusion! snip -FF-
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: snip What does low-spec hardware mean? Whatever the default setup of the latest release of Ubuntu runs sluggish on. (Or what a previous version of Ubuntu ran on, but current versions won't) While somewhat flippant, that seems a pretty reasonable way to think about it. snip This sounds about right, I have a Gateway netbook running a 1.6GHz processor and integrated graphics that runs Gentoo perfectly fine (XFCE mostly). The same netbook was rather sluggish running Ubuntu, and even KDE under Gentoo wasn't terribly impressive. With some reasonable CFLAGS and time to spare you can keep your compile times to within a few hours. -FF-
Re: [gentoo-user] WPA2 connection configuration?
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 7:12 AM, Spidey / Claudio spide...@gmail.comwrote: Complementing James comment, when I messed with Gentoo on a notebook I also tried the confusing and troublesome way: configuring wi-fi to connect at boot time. It was REALLY a challenge, maintaining a realistic configuration file, which would let you boot with network up equally while home and while at work. At the end of the day, I just regressed to no boot configuration and went with wicd or NetworkManager. When I came back to configuring my desktop, it felt strange to run dhcp at boot time, I even tried migrating a wired box to NetworkManager, but ended with a static config nevertheless. I'm curious, why is running DHCP at boot time not recommended? Before running any sort of network manager I ran dhcp on boot (I'll admit it, it was awkward when I wasn't wired in, since I would have to wait for dhcp to time out). It wasn't too terrible since I only had about 3 or 4 wireless networks I could possibly connect to. Between the Gentoo Handbook and Google I didn't have a terrible time setting it up; heck, I didn't even know there was a better way of managing wireless networks!
Re: [gentoo-user] Automation: Ripping DVDs to disk
James, It sounds like you want a complete solution for your multimedia, might I suggest something like xbmc or boxee? They're both solid platforms, unfortunately I cannot suggest a script for automating the disk ripping/conversion process. -Fernando On Mar 8, 2011 11:04 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, I have a large DVD(movie) collection, that I want copied to hard drive(s) and a database set up about the movies. Since disc is cheap ($75/2TB) I'm not even going to fool around with conversion or compression, i.e. MPEG-2 is fine for now, unless the process can be automated (see schema below). Naturally being able to store video in different formats would be a big plus. I'm very flexible on the DB so any software package that already exists in a (gui) tool form, so that I can set it up with simple instructions for an adolescent to: load the dvd execute the script or simple procedure wait until dvd movie is stored on disk then swap out for another DVD... rinse and repeat 500+ times What software exists, or what software would be easy to script up such an endeavor? Tagging movies by rating, genre, year, etc would be a bonus. Hopefully, playing movies after this will be a gui experience; so I can turn the kids and less astute friends loose in a multimedia room where the computer is hooked to a large screen LED device. Later on audio (music) tracks will be added to the menu or system, which hopefully supports a wide range of audio files. Lots of pieces exist in software, but, I'm looking for recommendations on a complete system, that is rather straight forward to install new movies (and audio) and then play them via an easy to use interface, seemlessly. Any comments or suggestions are most welcome. James
