[gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-25 Thread nova
OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. warning, no fsck.ext3 found. Error: mounting an ext2 partition failed on /dev/hda7 (a little different wording), Bad superblock, etc type

Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] Problems booting...still

2005-10-25 Thread Joseph Jezak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, I didn't have the devfs loaded into the kernel, so the new version boots past that point. However, the boot stops when it tries to load the root filesystem. You shouldn't use devfs. It's obsolete. Which liveCD / stage are you installing from? Which profile are

Re: [gentoo-user] Odd portage permission problems

2005-10-25 Thread Sascha Lucas
Hi Wes What do you make of this? Do I need to run fsck? I don't know whats wrong with your portage-tree, but you can try to get a new one. Just move the olde tree away and sync: # mv /usr/portage /usr/portage.old # mkdir /usr/portage # emerge sync Sascha. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can avoid explicit node names in config files. I'm not sure it's mandatory, but there

Re: [gentoo-user] [ot] PDF or PS format for daily use?

2005-10-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:10:56 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure if font embedding is possible in a .ps document. Of course it is. I think people using laser printers would have complained a lot otherwise... -hwh -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-25 Thread Budd, Tracy
Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook. Anyone have some hints as

[gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-25 Thread 赵光
i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98. img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user -net but in win98 can;t connect internet did i qemu need some driver to support this

[gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread sean
I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment. Users, mainly

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0800, wrote: i am install qemu and active kqemu using ./configure --enable-kqemu to configure and make make install than i use a win98.img to start qemu(using NAT ) qemu -hda win98.img -m 256 -localtime -enable-audio -user-net but in win98 can;t

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread John Jolet
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 04:44, sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread Digby Tarvin
I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a sym link if you want to be

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@gentoo.org issue 386 (24478-24527)

2005-10-25 Thread karlos
On 10/22/05, karlos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, I have posted this a few days ago and I know its quite newbie, but I would like to use XChat and emerge .. :) One of the symptoms is that I can't ping the gentoo servers ( heanet.ie for example) or connect to XChat servers. I have tried to put in

[gentoo-user] Re:

2005-10-25 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Karsten Gebbert wrote: the connection to the internet is fine I think, at least for browsing and such. [...] I can NOT ping the gentoo servers at all, no xchat servers etc. When I try to emerge, the address show in the terminal is always 1.0.0.0http://1.0.0.0. Same with Xchat servers. It

RE: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

2005-10-25 Thread Nicolas Saurbier
Hi, not shure but maybe you can use the OBEX-Push Service of the Bluez Bluetooth Package... if your phone can handle BT. Cheerz NIC -Original Message- From: Keats [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 4:39 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject:

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-10-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it. Check the Gentoo docs. No it won't. You need to add --deep and --update to catch everything: emerge --deep --update --newuse --verbose --ask world -- Neil Bothwick My Go this

[gentoo-user] udev does not create /dev/hdb

2005-10-25 Thread Matias Grana
hi; I upgraded to udev-070 recently (and now to udev-070-rc1). Since then, I can't mount /mnt/cdrom properly. Before, my /dev directory had a /dev/hdb, as well as /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2 . Now, it only has /dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, but /dev/hdb is no longer there. I still don't understand how

Re: [gentoo-user] Mobile phone

2005-10-25 Thread Hans-Werner Hilse
Hi, On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:38:34 +0200 Keats [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i wonder how to get the pictures from my phone ? i have it to work with irda via gammu/wammu but this software seems to be able only to get numbers phone and sms from the phone... What phone brand? Most phones support

[gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-25 Thread Frank.Pikelner
Im trying to use mii-tool to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a 10/100/1000 port. Every time I try

Re: [gentoo-user] apache log analyzer

2005-10-25 Thread Preston Hagar
On 10/24/05, Catalin Trifu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi,I'm pretty new to log analyzers. Besides webalizer which got alittle bit old (still usefull nonetheless) i have no other experience.I've googled and found awstats and analog.If you would care to comment on this issue I would be grateful for

[gentoo-user] Xorg font sizes and resolution

2005-10-25 Thread Maik Musall
Hello, I'm trying and googling and manpaging since weeks without success. I'm having trouble with a custom application that requests the font -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-128-100-100-p-*-io8859-1. 128 is not present in /usr/share/fonts/100dpi/fonts.dir. By tweaking the DisplaySize

Re: [gentoo-user] partition sizes and home directories

2005-10-25 Thread Richard Fish
sean wrote: I know this can be a tough call on how to partition a drive, but I am looking for some input. My system will be used as for my own personal use, no server for outside, though I may run a web server for private in home use, some games, whatever I wish to play and experiment.

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-25 Thread Roy Wright
Budd, Tracy wrote: Whenever I boot up my machine, I get a message to the effect The Gentoo system initialization scripts have detected that your system does not support DEVFS or UDEV... I have included all of the appropriate kernel options and emerged UDEV, hotplug, etc. per the Handbook.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Dan Johansson
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 12.27, Mike Williams wrote: On Tuesday 25 October 2005 06:01, Francesco Talamona wrote: DEVICE partitions ARRAY /dev/md0 uuid=8ef83d67:79b230ba:6cc967c3:208b9224 AFAIK fd partition type is mandatory. Anyway is good to know that I can avoid explicit node

Re: [gentoo-user] mii-tool on Dell 2850 with 10/100/1000 ports

2005-10-25 Thread kashani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I’m trying to use “mii-tool” to configure the NIC speed and duplex on a Dell 2850 server (currently auto negotiates and has negotiated 100/half). The switch port is configured for 100/full. The Dell 2850 server uses the Broadcom chipset for the NIC and is a

[gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

2005-10-25 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant table

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Moving system from single-disk to RAID-1 configuration

2005-10-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Tuesday 25 October 2005 18:02, Dan Johansson wrote: Thanks for your input. Just one Question about setting the partition type to 'FD' - should I do this for all Partitions or ? Which ever partitions you are going to create raid arrays from, but I don't imagine it would do any real harm to

Re: [gentoo-user] shutdown, restart problem

2005-10-25 Thread b.n.
when xserver closes there is mess on screen and i loose any control over - just power button. Any ideas where to look? I dont keep track but possibly this is after baselayout and udev upgrade. Hmm. It seems X f***s up your video memory, or something of this kind. What video card and

[gentoo-user] Re: MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

2005-10-25 Thread Grant
Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that do? From what I remember, I need to password the grant

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu can't connect to internet

2005-10-25 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 10:10:40PM +0800, wrote: now,i use qemu to emulate arch linux,and set arch to use dhcp but always can;t connect to internet my host system was on net,can connect to internet,thx did qemu have some configure argument to enable or disable net? thx Shouldn't be.

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL 4.1 upgrade questions

2005-10-25 Thread Francesco R.
Alle 19:39, martedì 25 ottobre 2005, Grant ha scritto: Hello, I'm upgrading my server from mysql 4.0 to 4.1 by following the instructions here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/mysql-upgrading.xml I noticed this piece of instruction: emerge --config =mysql-4.1.micro_version What does that

RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo system initialization scripts UDEV message

2005-10-25 Thread Budd, Tracy
Roy, Thank you for your quick response. I am sure that #5 applies (as I have seen another message to that effect). I am not sitting at the machine now, but I will give this a try tonight. I love this forum! Thanks again. -Tracy -Original Message- From: Roy Wright Sent: Tuesday, October

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags...

2005-10-25 Thread Mark Shields
I was going to pipe in about that Neil, but ya beat me to it. I like to shorten it and just type emerge -DNavu world , though.On 10/25/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 18:24:13 -0400 (EDT), Brett I. Holcomb wrote: emerge --newuse world -p will catch all of it.Check

[gentoo-user] /var/log/messages size

2005-10-25 Thread Allan Spagnol Comar
Hi All, I was looking for explanations about syslog-ng and got stucked I was wondering why my /var/log/messages has 2.1 GB size and if I can reduce this size or config it better; I am using default syslog-ng config that was emerged by gentoo instalation. Thanks, Allan --