Hi there,
can somebody tell me where sources for bootstaping are stored?
I build from stage1 to stage3 and want to get rid of unnecessary tar
balls.
Zbynek
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Zbynek Houska wrote:
Hi there,
can somebody tell me where sources for bootstaping are stored?
I build from stage1 to stage3 and want to get rid of unnecessary tar
balls.
Zbynek
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IIRC, they should
Hi,
Can a process check if a given PID exists or not? In other words can a
process check if an unrelated process is alive? Is there any system
call that does this?
I can think of a (few) work arounds to this:
1. open(/proc/pid_in_question) will return true if the process with
pid =
Dirk Raeder pe v t 01. 03. 2005 v 09:10 +0100:
IIRC, they should be in /usr/portage/distfiles - like all sources.
Not im my case, directory /usr/portage/distfiles doesn't exist at all
(as system has been bootstrapped)
bash-2.05b# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:17:35 -0600 Hareesh Nagarajan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Can a process check if a given PID exists or not? In other words can a
| process check if an unrelated process is alive? Is there any system
| call that does this?
man 1 kill
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Check out /var/tmp/portage, I believe it's where the sources are
unpacked and where the original compiled image is stored.
Zbynek Houska wrote:
Dirk Raeder pe v t 01. 03. 2005 v 09:10 +0100:
IIRC, they should be in /usr/portage/distfiles - like all sources.
Not im my case, directory
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:35:02 +, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 02:17:35 -0600 Hareesh Nagarajan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Can a process check if a given PID exists or not? In other words can a
| process check if an unrelated process is alive? Is there any
Steven Susbauer pe v t 01. 03. 2005 v 00:42 -0800:
Check out /var/tmp/portage, I believe it's where the sources are
^^^ this one doesn't exist too :-(
unpacked and where the original compiled image is stored.
Zbynek
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Heinz Sporn wrote:
The reason why so many people literally hate Ati when it comes to Linux
is rather simple: their Linux driver support is - simply put - weak, on
the edge of not existing whereas Nvidia was rather friendly to the
community right from the start.
From the start
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:22:50 +0100, Zbynek Houska wrote:
IIRC, they should be in /usr/portage/distfiles - like all sources.
Not im my case, directory /usr/portage/distfiles doesn't exist at all
(as system has been bootstrapped)
Source files are downloaded to wherever you set DISTDIR to in
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 09:56, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
man 2 kill
Well, this requires that the other process be prepared to handle the
signal...something that can not generally be assumed. Even if you use
ignored-by-default signals (ie, SIGURG or SIGCHLD), they might be meaningful
for the
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 10:13, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Well, this requires that the other process be prepared to handle the
signal
Forget about this...I need a coffee.
Sorry
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Zbynek Houska wrote:
Not im my case, directory /usr/portage/distfiles doesn't exist at all
(as system has been bootstrapped)
bash-2.05b# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ROOT 1.9G 873M 953M 48% /
This seems to imply that you
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 20:45 -0700, Collins Richey wrote:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:17:23 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
One gotcha: be sure to remember which partition contains the active
grub.conf Once I decided to remove a partition to install another
distro, but I forgot that that partition was
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 19:51 +0300, Alexander Kirillov wrote:
Could you please suggest
something I could use to limit transfer rates
to/from selected ports.
Need to simulate dial-up connections locally.
You can
- use trickle, which is a userspace solution using preloading for glibc's
Keith Gable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 23:17:27 +0100, Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Keith Gable [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH.
You are wrong.
Okay, well, then I was wrong :). Don't have to be mean
Hi,
is there a way to keep track of the emerge messages? If you do an emerge
-uDvp world you sometimes have messages like * you have to restart
apache or * look at /var/cache/somewhere or something like that. These
messages drown in the mass of compile-output.
It would be great if you could
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| Hi,
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| is there a way to keep track of the emerge messages? If you do an emerge
| -uDvp world you sometimes have messages like * you have to restart
| apache or * look at /var/cache/somewhere or something like that. These
|
Iain Buchanan wrote:
I thought as a wild stab in the dark, (even though it was empty) I would
copy /usr/share/fonts/TTF/Vera.ttf to .wine/fake_windows/Windows/Fonts/
and guess what? Now all my apps start in english!! although I don't
really know what strange wine font search order was causing the
Willie Wong wrote:
Is there anyway to tell if the
harddrive is failing in real time?
emerge smartmontools
man smartd
Benno
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Gregory P. Smith wrote:
On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 01:27:50AM -0600, Hareesh Nagarajan wrote:
1. warning: Unable to find dynamic linker breakpoint function.
GDB will be unable to debug shared library initializers
and track explicitly loaded dynamic code.
I also see the above error and am
Hello all,
Just updated my firefox to 1.0.1; before that my startup file was
~/.firefox, and after the update it uses ~/.mozilla, which was my 0.8 or
0.9 startup file.
Anyone knows where to specify that (no firefox in /etc)
tia
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hi folks,
I am having trouble configuring usb mouse connected to
my HP Pavillion zv5000. It doesn't work. I have a
kensington usbmouse
The following usb modules are loaded
usbhid
ehci_hcd
uhci_hcd
usbcore
cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1
Spd=480
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Hello all,
Just updated my firefox to 1.0.1; before that my startup file was
~/.firefox, and after the update it uses ~/.mozilla, which was my 0.8 or
0.9 startup file.
Anyone knows where to specify that (no firefox in /etc)
tia
Actually, it should be using
The default has been ~/.mozilla/firefox for some time now.
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:43 +0100, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Hello all,
Just updated my firefox to 1.0.1; before that my startup file was
~/.firefox, and after the update it uses ~/.mozilla, which was my 0.8 or
0.9 startup file.
Benno Schulenberg benno.schulenberg at gmail.com writes:
Willie Wong wrote:
Is there anyway to tell if the
harddrive is failing in real time?
emerge smartmontools
man smartd
Also look at:
emerge -s bonnie
app-benchmarks/bonnie
Latest version available: 2.0.6
Size of
Holly Bostick wrote:
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
Hello all,
Just updated my firefox to 1.0.1; before that my startup file was
~/.firefox, and after the update it uses ~/.mozilla, which was my 0.8
or 0.9 startup file.
Anyone knows where to specify that (no firefox in /etc)
tia
Actually, it
Robert G. Siebeck r.g.siebeck at gmail.com writes:
I'm trying to dial into my Gentoo-box. As a modem I use my Siemens
mobile phone and I want mgetty to answer the call.
Well, I'd try to get it working using a regular POTS line first. Once that
dialin works, then use the GSM phone.
I always
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
It may (must) have occured, and I probably missed it. Is there a way to
switch that now?
You could just delete the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and it will give
you the opportunity to import settings from mozilla again. I think that
there's a
Peter Karlsson pe v t 01. 03. 2005 v 10:15 +0100:
bash-2.05b# df -h
FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ROOT 1.9G 873M 953M 48% /
This seems to imply that you haven't followed the instructions correctly.
Did you extract the stage- and
Peter Karlsson wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote:
It may (must) have occured, and I probably missed it. Is there a way
to switch that now?
You could just delete the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory and it will give
you the opportunity to import settings from mozilla again. I
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Zbynek Houska wrote:
hey, I omited to say that I use an UML patched kernel and then I boot
sirectly to it.
Ok, but you still have to go through the same process, untar-ing the
stageX-ARCH-200X.X.tar.bz2 file and the portage-snapshot-file where
appropriate (i.e. the would-be
Hi,
When emerging certain packages (imagemagick, imlib2 so far), I get an
error because .la files from an old, non-existing version of gcc is
being used. Example from a failed emerge of imagemagick:
if i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I./magick -I. -I.
-I./Magick++/lib
Rasmus Andersen wrote:
Hi,
When emerging certain packages (imagemagick, imlib2 so far), I get an
error because .la files from an old, non-existing version of gcc is
being used. Example from a failed emerge of imagemagick:
blah blah blah, we've heard it all before :-)
/bin/sed: can't read
On 21:32 Mon 28 Feb , Bo Grimes wrote:
First, thanks for all the feedback on video cards.
I am about to attempt my first Gentoo install, and I plan on taking it
very slowly since the whole reason I want to go Gentoo is to find my
last distro, optimize it for my system and learn as much
Hi All! Im trying to manually install VMware Workstation for Linux,
when I unpack the source there is a vmware-install.pl that I
executethen in the second question:
What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/)?
Argh, Gentoo uses rc-update to manage the
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, David Corbin wrote:
Where is uuencode packaged?
I believe it is uulib
That said, you might look into the uudeview package. Supports more
mimetypes and seems to be a dropin replacement for uudecode.
Christopher Fisk
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 15:19:16 +0100, {Zecke} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All! Im trying to manually install VMware Workstation for Linux,
when I unpack the source there is a vmware-install.pl that I
executethen in the second question:
What is the directory that contains the init
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:55:30PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
blah blah blah, we've heard it all before :-)
Sorry for not paying attention if this been asked before...
Try
# fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Rasmus
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On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, Bo Grimes wrote:
Right now I have Linux on hdb3 and Windows 98 on hda1 with a FAT32 partition
for Windows apps on hdb1. HDB2 is swap. I want to keep the 6 gig hda1 with
Windows just for a few educational games my kids still use that wouldn't run
on XP, but I want to use
Rasmus Andersen ha scritto:
On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 02:55:30PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
blah blah blah, we've heard it all before :-)
Sorry for not paying attention if this been asked before...
Try
# fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.4
Worked like a charm. Thanks!
Rasmus
Obviously, it's a mantra
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by
su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error.
E233: cannot open display
This is an X security thing. Instead of launching Firefox from a su'd
session, why not install sudo and run
Hmmm, if I try to check if a process with a known pid exists I use to
use
``ps -p $PID''
... assuming shell.
If you are talking about C/C++ ... I'd have a look at the source code of
the shell command above. This should show something like your work
around below.
Regards
Frank
On Tue,
The problem is, Gentoo doesn't have rc0.d through rc6.d. That's why an
ebuild for vmware-workstation exists in portage, it modifies this part
of the installation to fit within Gentoo's init environment. Give that
a try, it's the same thing as installing from the retail installer.
First time
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by
su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error.
E233: cannot open display
By default X.org disables tcp access.
To enable root (or another user) to open windows on the display you need to:
1. remove the -nolisten tcp
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:36:05 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
In my time of using linux, I've found the easiest way to multiboot
different distributions is to share a common /boot between them all,
where you put all your kernels into that partition, and have a single
grub.conf for
James wrote:
I always use wvdial with ppp for dial-out.
As a command-line cripple (um, make that challenged) I have always used
KPPP. However, recently with Ubuntu I was forced to learn some of wvdial.
Ubuntu only provides Gnome, and the network set-up wizard wouldn't
work. I used apt
On 10:02 Tue 01 Mar , Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by
su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error.
E233: cannot open display
This is an X security thing. Instead of
Hi,
I'm unable to start X with my new Asus V9250-X/TD (GeForce FX 5200).
There fatal errors I get are:
Required symbol xf86ExecX86int10 from module
/usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
Required symbol xf86InitInt10 from module
/usr/lib/modules/drivers/nvidia_drv.o is unresolved!
Hi!
If you're not on an outside machine and security is not really a concern for
the moment you can try xhost + as the user and then su to root. This
disables access control; you might want to be careful. When you are done you
can reenable it by xhost - after root logged off. This is a rather
Bill Davidson wrote:
Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install guide in the
gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other distro.
Thanks to all for the input thus far. I knew I could dual-boot, because
I am, but I have never run two Linux versions on the same
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally, then
install the bootloader for the other distros into the root partition of
that distro, instead of the MBR. Then you
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any
secure way of using it?
You could (as root) copy the mit-magic cookie to root's directory (/root).
This is usually the recommended way, from a security point of view. X
clients scan the
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:30:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally,
then install the bootloader for the other distros into the root
partition of that
Neil Bothwick wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally, then
install the bootloader for the other distros into the root partition of
that distro, instead of the MBR.
Right now my MBR is on my
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:25:12 -0500, Bill Roberts wrote:
I've also stayed away from xhosts for security reasons. Is there any
secure way of using it?
emerge sux
Note: that is a command, not an opinion ;-)
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Bill Roberts wrote:
When I'm logged on as a user, and I try to open gvim or firefox by
su'ing or sudo'ing as root, I get the following error.
E233: cannot open display
I used to be able to do this, but there was a tightening of security
at some point, and now I cannot. I am
I have my kernel configured properly for consolefb support at
1024x768... I also have a couple of diffrent console fonts compiled into
the kernel. How do I use them?
- Brad
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Hi Bill,
normally it should work with sudo. Please comment out the line
Defaults env_reset
in your /etc/sudoers (if it isn't) and try again
Ulli
Am Dienstag, den 01.03.2005, 10:25 -0500 schrieb Bill Roberts:
On 10:02 Tue 01 Mar , Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005,
Did you build a new kernel? If so you need to reemerge nvidia stuff - and make
sure /usr/src/linux points to the kernel you are using.
From: Petri Lehtonen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 2005/03/01 Tue PM 03:32:26 GMT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [gentoo-user] Required symbol
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:30:38 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
What fun is life without a little danger :)
You are asking that of a person who makes a living at IT? I much prefer a
nice boring day than a Fix it or your fired day.
As with the other
In the same console you opened wvdial, just type ctrl-c. If you want to
reconnect, just type in wvdial in the ssmae console.
Robert Crawford
On Tuesday 01 March 2005 05:15 am, Bo Grimes wrote:
James wrote:
I always use wvdial with ppp for dial-out.
As a command-line cripple (um, make that
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:06:28 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
When testing distros, I prefer to keep the whole distro in one place,
instead of mixing files from different distros in one partition. I
have done it this way, but keeping them separate makes for easier
removal. If you need
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 10:39:31 +, Bo Grimes wrote:
The other way, which works especially well when you are continually
adding and removing distros, is to set up your main distro normally,
then install the bootloader for the other distros into the root
partition of that distro, instead of
On Monday 28 February 2005 17:14, Mike Williams wrote:
I'm running 2.6, so no ipsecX virtual interfaces :(
Got it, and this was the problem.
Essentially, what I was doing was correct. It was the KAME ipsec code in 2.6
that was screwing me around.
Moved back to 2.4 headers, un-nptl'isd glibc,
It worked, thanks a lot.
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 21:50 +0100, Oliver Lemke wrote:
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:33 +0200, Ivan Yosifov wrote:
Hello Guys,
I am trying to install additional spell checks for Evolution. How do I
do it , what do I emerge ? AFAIK Evolution uses aspell ( is this so ?
Robert Crawford wrote:
In the same console you opened wvdial, just type ctrl-c. If you want to
reconnect, just type in wvdial in the ssmae console.
It's *that* simple, aye? I keep telling myself humility is good for
me. Thanks.
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On Saturday 26 February 2005 23:41, Walter Dnes wrote:
1) I notice some occasional mention of people continuing to use their
systems while emerge is running. Intuitively, this seems like driving
your car while mechanics are working on it. I shut down every X session
and every text console
Peter Karlsson wrote:
From the start is a bit exaggerated. But [NVidia] had binary drivers
much earlier than ati.
This thread has has led me to wonder about drivers. I have never
installed a source distro, complied a kernel or installed a driver for
my video card.
I assumed SuSe, Mandrake,
Neil Bothwick wrote:
I'm suggesting you install the bootloader to the root partition for your NEW distro, then chainload that from your current bootloader.
I see. Chainloading is a new concept to me. I assume it means what
it sounds like it means, so I will research this more. Thanks a bunch!
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 12:17:57 +, Bo Grimes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Peter Karlsson wrote:
From the start is a bit exaggerated. But [NVidia] had binary drivers
much earlier than ati.
This thread has has led me to wonder about drivers. I have never
installed a source distro, complied
Hi!
VMware does not entirely follow the Gentoo
way. /etc/vmware/init.d/vmware is the start/stop script for VMware
(/opt/vmware/bin/vmware relies on that one). A tip: whenever VMware
think's it has not been configured correctly it creates a
file /etc/vmware/not_configured. vmware-config.pl deletes
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:06:16 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did you build a new kernel? If so you need to reemerge nvidia stuff -
and make sure /usr/src/linux points to the kernel you are using.
Nope. Kernel has always been the one it is now (it's a fresh gentoo
box).
Before I heard that it just started working again I thought that
possibly jfs wasnt compiled into the kernel. but now that it works im
not sure what to think
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 08:27 -0600, Keith Gable wrote:
I'm pretty sure your boot partition has to be ext2/ext3. HTH.
On Sun, 27 Feb
Bo Grimes wrote:
Bill Davidson wrote:
Yes, you can do this. In fact, if you follow the alternate install
guide in the gentoo handbook, you can install gentoo from your other
distro.
Thanks to all for the input thus far. I knew I could dual-boot, because
I am, but I have never run two Linux
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 00:12 -0500, Phil Sexton wrote:
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 23:47, maxim wexler wrote:
http://www.edmunds-enterprises.com/linux/cart.php/ba/pdtl/product/218
How different are these from the packageCDs on the
gentoo site? In a pinch I can get one of these from a
Hello All,
I'm working on a video deployment with Gentoo. Does anyone have any
experiencedriving a 42 plasma or LCD display from a Gentoo System?
Are all video cards equivalent for this application? Playing DVDs?
My aplication requires 1 and/or 4 and/or 16 cameras to be displayed.
Does anybody
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 13:23, Nick Rout wrote:
If they are so up to date why are they still shipping the xfree package,
when xorg-x11 seems to now be preferred and supported.
I am assuming that the package page is out of date (but I may be wrong).
E-mail them and ask edmonds enterprises about
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote:
I have never really been interested in Grub cos it is more complicated
than lilo, and lilo has never given me any probs at all (I always
install to mbr as well).
One huge advantage of grub over lilo is the fact that you can edit the
boot choices from within
Hi,
if his disk is damaged or working out of spec (like the servos not working
exactly enough anymore), any hd-intensive stuff will make it worse.
First, check if the disk is ok, than benchmark ;)
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hello ppl
i'm trying to create a tunnel to access the wireless network present
in my campus.
the vpn server in my campus is MICR$$ft.
i've configured pptp to require mppe, and forced 128 encryption. when
i'm trying to connect pppd gives me some errors.
these are the errors:
Using interface
Le lundi 28 février 2005 à 10:17 -0800, Justin Patrin a écrit :
On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 12:58:30 -0500, Bill Roberts
If you hard disk is 90% full or better, it will be dog slow.
Yes, it is 90% full currently. I believe I still have the problem
when more is free, though.
Check it if
On 17:01 Tue 01 Mar , Ulrich Anhalt wrote:
normally it should work with sudo. Please comment out the line
Defaults env_reset
in your /etc/sudoers (if it isn't) and try again
Ulli
Your suggestion for /etc/sudoers solved the problem for gvim, but
firefox was very unhappy, root
Hello all,
After a emerge --update --deep --newuse world
and then
env-update source /etc/profile updatedb etc-update
I manually went throught the etc-update... Mostly X/KDE stuff
nothing related to printing...
I have lost print. I cannot even
lpr filename
The printer is fine, via a
Hello all,
Hello, James.
After a emerge --update --deep --newuse world
and then
env-update source /etc/profile updatedb etc-update
I hope you had a reason to include --newuse as, without the -e for empty
tree it's kinda pointless, I believe.
I used cups to setup the printing and
Christopher Fisk wrote:
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Antoine wrote:
I have never really been interested in Grub cos it is more
complicated than lilo, and lilo has never given me any probs at all
(I always install to mbr as well).
One huge advantage of grub over lilo is the fact that you can edit the
Well the kernel should have nothing to do with it as GRUB died before giving me
a chance to select which kernel I wanted to boot. Don't know what was up, but
things are still stable, and I'm not sure I've ever had to reinstall grub to
the MBR once I had it working. I'm not sure if I should try
At Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:06:28 -0500 (EST) Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
And you can restore the whole thing if needed. Or, if you only need
the boot loader, you can just do the first 448 of that mbr.bin
dd if=mbr.bin of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1
Thanks for this. I hadn't realized
I had problems with ATI under both windows and linux, but that aside NVIDIA's
drivers simply outperform similar ATI's based on similar cards in my
(admittedly) limited experience. I had an Radeon 9250, and I gave up on it. My
nvidia 5700LE is great and hasn't given me a bit of trouble from day
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Collins Richey wrote:
You probably love emacs, too grin.
I still don't know why someone would want to run an Operating system like
emacs inside of thier operating system of Linux. But I digress...
:w!
ZZ
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On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 14:33:33 -0500 (EST), Christopher Fisk wrote:
I still don't know why someone would want to run an Operating system
like emacs inside of thier operating system of Linux. But I digress...
Because without Linux they wouldn't have a text editor :)
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:25:24 -0400, Luis F. Araujo wrote:
As far as i know lilo needs to record the address in the HD where the
kernel is located,
make it very hardware-depedent, that's why even if you change a minimal
option in the kernel
(for example tweaking a few things in .config),
Has anyone tried HFS on an intel box, as an alternative to the
ext3/reiser/jfs/xfs mess?
What problem did you run into?
Thanks,
Julien
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:22:54 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
I hope you had a reason to include --newuse as, without the -e for
empty tree it's kinda pointless, I believe.
It's the other way round, --newuse with -e is pointless, as -e
re-emerges everything anyway. --newuse re-emerges packages that
Dave Nebinger dnebinger at joat.com writes:
Hello all,
Hello, James.
After a emerge --update --deep --newuse world
and then
env-update source /etc/profile updatedb etc-update
I hope you had a reason to include --newuse as, without the -e for empty
tree it's kinda
- use tc and the QoS-Kernel-Features.
I don't mind recompiling the kernel and would rather use a generic
tool useful for system administration later down the road.
Looks like tc is the way to go.
It gives you a lot of options. It's in the iproute2-package. It has a
little high learning curve, but
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 14:22:54 -0500, Dave Nebinger wrote:
I hope you had a reason to include --newuse as, without the -e for
empty tree it's kinda pointless, I believe.
It's the other way round, --newuse with -e is pointless, as -e
Hi,
I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg
of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got
any experience with this?
Cheers
Antoine
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Anyone else having this, everyother time I run an update world portage either
upgrades or downgrades flac and libdv.. Everything else is fine?
Mike
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On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:12:40 +0100, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg
of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got
any experience with this?
Cheers
Antoine
The problem isn't how many megs
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