Re: [gentoo-user] after dd many badblocks on new SATA HD

2005-11-15 Thread Raymond Lillard
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 18:03 -0800, maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, I ran dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sda bs=10240 to copy the contents of one drive to another as suggested on this list. And updated fstab and grub.conf. Now the PC boots into a kernel panic. bad idea.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: disk full but lot of space

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Christopher Fisk wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How useful is this system to you, when you can't even write to the disk? I can write to the system again... The system couldn't write from 3 AM to 8 AM, after that, It was ok again. That's why I'm not really enthousiast

Re: [gentoo-user] setting using_dma on a BenQ DVD/RW drive

2005-08-08 Thread Raymond Lillard
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:19:46 -0500, Roy Wright wrote: My system has two SATA WD Raptors for hard disks. I'm trying to get DMA working for the DVD writer which is IDE. I'd just like to eliminate the occasionaly hiccup when playing DVDs. This makes it more likely that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: rebuilding with -e -- problem with output

2005-08-06 Thread Raymond Lillard
Mark Shields wrote: Perhaps I wasn't clear enough (I apologize, I was only waking up then). I changed my make.conf file yesterday and starting recompiling my entire system with emerge -ve world . I used the because I was at work and didn't want the recompile process stopping if my ssh session

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] opinions know-how requested: how to create a mail cluster

2005-08-05 Thread Raymond Lillard
daniel wrote: My boss wants me to create a bunch of mail relays to capture and relay mail sent to us and discard spam etc, but I'm not sure where to start. I'd like to use exim unless you all have a better idea. To be honest, at the moment, I'm not sure where to start. Here's a simple

Re: [gentoo-user] Am I dumb?

2005-08-05 Thread Raymond Lillard
AJ Spagnoletti wrote: I have recently become busy with a couple of things and dont have time to sift through all the emails from the mailing list so I decided that i want to unsubscribe... On Aug 2nd I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2 days later I was still recieving emails. I tried to send

[gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage

2005-08-01 Thread Raymond Lillard
I'm new to Gentoo (old at Linux) and like what I see so far. The only downside to Gentoo that I've found is that it takes forever to compile everything. I do appreciate that my system runs faster, it's just the price is two days and a fat pipe to do a fairly complete install. Most binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Stale Samba in Portage (SOLVED)

2005-08-01 Thread Raymond Lillard
Raymond Lillard wrote: Now on to my topic. I have noticed that the Samba version presently available in Portage is v3.0.10. That version was released more than six months ago. The latest released version of Samba (v3.0.14a), which contains several important bug fixes over v3.0.10