[gentoo-user] Boot from a USB device on old hardware

2017-10-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, sorry, this is a bit off topic. I have old hardware where the BIOS cannot boot from an USB device. For testing a Gentoo problem (Balsa) I need to boot an older system. Is it possible to boot from a cdrom drive and then "switch" to the kernel with the full init process on a separate (USB)

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot from a USB device on old hardware

2017-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 08:44:25 -, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > sorry, this is a bit off topic. > I have old hardware where the BIOS cannot boot from an USB device. > For testing a Gentoo problem (Balsa) I need to boot an older system. > Is it possible to boot from a cdrom drive and then "switch" to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-05 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 23:49:30 BST mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > I have to disagree with the last post. You should most certainly block some > inbound traffic. you should block ports you aren't using. If some ip > addr. or particular provider have a customer trying to

[gentoo-user] Re: eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-10-05 21:39, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I > have i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live > distribution). Can you get 100Mbit/s with it? The laptop I use also has no ethernet. I bought a USB dongle

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 15:15:11 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I > > have i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live > > distribution). > > Can you get 100Mbit/s with it? > > The laptop I use also has no ethernet.

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

2017-10-05 Thread Stroller
> On 5 Oct 2017, at 23:01, Tanstaafl wrote: > > Thanks very much to all who replied, two last questions for those who > are using Linode… I've only been using Linode a couple of weeks, and I know nothing about Xen vs KVM. I just installed Linode's Gentoo image file

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

2017-10-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On Thu Oct 05 2017 18:01:01 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl wrote: > Second, do you have rc_sys defined, or are you using auto-detect (is it > just commented out)? Oh - and if I were to change this to auto-detect (comment it out), and the VM failed to boot,

[gentoo-user] type keyboard problem

2017-10-05 Thread Bill Kenworthy
Hi all, I have a laptop keyboard problem - it fails to reconnect the keyboard on opening after closing. MS Surface pro 4 with type keyboard. The keyboard connects correctly on bootup or resume from hibernate (when open). Close keyboard (removes power), open keyboard and it no longer works.

[gentoo-user] Again eix-sync is ...

2017-10-05 Thread tuxic
Hi, got this this evening: /root>eix-sync * push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push/ is needed [1]5309 exit 2 eix-sync Net is up: >ping www.heise.de PING www.heise.de (193.99.144.85) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from www.heise.de (193.99.144.85): icmp_seq=1 ttl=249 time=49.4 ms 64

SOLVED Re: [gentoo-user] eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread pat
On 2017-10-05 23:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 05/10/2017 21:39, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: Hi, I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I have i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live distribution). For the first time: I've configured kernel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Again eix-sync is ...

2017-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 19:04:29 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > got this this evening: > > /root>eix-sync > * push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push/ is needed > [1]5309 exit 2 eix-sync Use emerge --sync followed by a world update. That will install app-shells/push and

Re: [gentoo-user] Again eix-sync is ...

2017-10-05 Thread tuxic
On 10/05 05:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2017 19:04:29 +0200, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > > > got this this evening: > > > > /root>eix-sync > > * push.sh from https://github.com/vaeth/push/ is needed > > [1]5309 exit 2 eix-sync > > Use emerge --sync followed by a world

[gentoo-user] eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread pat
Hi, I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I have i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live distribution). For the first time: I've configured kernel, compiled, loaded kernel module and created link to /etc/init.d/net.lo and somehow I've push it

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Block multiple IP addresses; iptables or route...reject?

2017-10-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 10:35:43AM +0100, Mick wrote > There are a few problems with this approach: > > As it has already been mentioned, the Chinese, Ukrainian, et al. IP > address blocks change on an hourly basis. Huh?!? The subdomain names, maybe; but not the country IP address range.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread christos kotsis
If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then I would go for two partitions. One would be either ext3 or ext4, with huge block size, while the second could be one of two with small block size(minimum 1024). On 5 Oct 2017 10:46 pm, wrote: Hi,

[gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread pat
Hi, Installing gentoo on new laptop and it has 2TB disk. I want to use 1.8TB for data where will be big files and also huge amount of small files, thus I want to ask which FS is best for this. Until now I've used reiserfs on cca 0.5TB partition, but I don't know if it's also good choice for

Re: [gentoo-user] eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 05 Oct 2017 21:39:58 +0200, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I have > i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live > distribution). > > For the first time: I've configured kernel, compiled, loaded kernel >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT?} which fs on 1.8TB partition

2017-10-05 Thread christos kotsis
I just noticed that ReiserFS has significant performance over ext3, 4 when dealing with small files. On 5 Oct 2017 11:32 pm, "christos kotsis" wrote: If the big data are used often,and I/O performance is desirable, then I would go for two partitions. One would be either

Re: [gentoo-user] eth over usb

2017-10-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 05/10/2017 21:39, p...@xvalheru.org wrote: > Hi, > > I'm installing gentoo on new laptop which doesn't have eth slot. I have > i-tec usb-eth adapter which works fine (tested on linux live distribution). > > For the first time: I've configured kernel, compiled, loaded kernel > module and

Re: [gentoo-user] Linode discontinuing Xen, migrating to KVM

2017-10-05 Thread Tanstaafl
On Mon Oct 02 2017 13:30:03 GMT-0400 (Eastern Standard Time), Tanstaafl wrote: > Ok, so just got the notice that Linode is discontinuing their support > for Xen, and forcing everyone to migrate their VMs to KVM. Thanks very much to all who replied, two last questions