Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Nick Rout wrote: Definitely not spam, thats a great article. two questions - do any of the "standard" (ie in portage) kernel ebuilds include this patch? - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2 patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel? Just off to power

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Kiawud wrote: On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did the following (I d

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Kiawud
On 4/16/05, Mrugesh Karnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation > at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and > now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... > > I did the following (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Software Suspend2 using Gentoo Ebuilds - New Magazine MyOSS Mag

2005-04-16 Thread Nick Rout
Definitely not spam, thats a great article. two questions - do any of the "standard" (ie in portage) kernel ebuilds include this patch? - is it possible to patch the gentoo-sources kernel with the suspend2 patch? Or will it only apply cleanly to a vanilla kernel? Just off to power up my laptop a

[gentoo-user] Installing 2005.0 with LVM2

2005-04-16 Thread Mrugesh Karnik
Hello folks, I'm trying to install Gentoo with LVM2. I had to stop the installation at one point and reboot the pc. Later, I booted with LiveCD again and now I'm wondering how I am to get my volumes back... I did the following (I definitely think that I'm doing something wrong here! I admit tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Rchard & Brian, Thanks a lot you guys. The FC2 home and Musiclib partitions are now mounting, user accounts are created, passwords and groups are more or less in place and everyone can at least log in and see file permissions with the correct owners and groups. I'm about 110 of 179 packages

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

2005-04-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Marten Karl wrote: > The same counts for my installation. The statement in the installation > documentation (the no interactive version of mirrorselect usage) has every > time brought my make.conf to unusable state. It shouldn't but what I do is run mirrorselect WITHOUT the r

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Christoph Gysin wrote: >Vittorio wrote: > > >>No Christoph, it still doesn't work! I've been rebooting three times to no >>avail. Still /dev/hda1,...,/dev/hda6 ONLY*** >> >> >Do you use udev or devfs? > >Could you post the output of >$ fdisk -l /dev/hda > > > Hmm, it just occurred t

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Vittorio wrote: >No Christoph, it still doesn't work! I've been rebooting three times to no >avail. Still /dev/hda1,...,/dev/hda6 ONLY*** > > Do you use udev or devfs? Could you post the output of $ fdisk -l /dev/hda Christoph -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" [E

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Vittorio wrote: >Alle 15:11, sabato 16 aprile 2005, Christoph Gysin ha scritto: > > >>Vittorio wrote: >> >> >>>I've just reshaped the partitions of my laptop hardisk removing a primary >>>partition /dev/hda3 previously devoted to swap, making a bigger >>>reiserfs /dev/hda3 and recreatring th

Re: [gentoo-user] unmerging kde-3.3

2005-04-16 Thread Robert Persson
On April 15, 2005 03:10 pm, quoth Neil Bothwick: > On Fri, 15 Apr 2005 13:39:48 -0700, Robert Persson wrote: > > I am now running kde-3.4. How do I get rid of kde-3.3.2? I don't even > > know how to get rid of it one package at a time because emerge and > > equery don't allow wildcards. > > A b

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID in 2005.0 install?

2005-04-16 Thread A. Khattri
On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, A. Khattri wrote: > livecd dev # mdadm --create md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 > mdadm: error opening md0: No such file or directory OK, I figured out udev doesn't create the devices for me so I ran "MAKEDEV md" to create the device files and then successf

[gentoo-user] RAID in 2005.0 install?

2005-04-16 Thread A. Khattri
Ive loaded dm and raid modules but can't create any raid devices: livecd dev # mdadm --create md0 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm: error opening md0: No such file or directory I think I have all the right modules loaded: livecd dev # lsmod Module Size Used

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Vittorio
Alle 15:11, sabato 16 aprile 2005, Christoph Gysin ha scritto: > Vittorio wrote: > > I've just reshaped the partitions of my laptop hardisk removing a primary > > partition /dev/hda3 previously devoted to swap, making a bigger > > reiserfs /dev/hda3 and recreatring the swap partition that now is >

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Phill MV wrote: >cdrecord -dao dev=/dev/hdc /pkg.iso > >and so on -- all of which simply not doing anything after warning me >that I have no DMA. > > >From your dmesg output, it looks like you have some kind of hardware problem. Have you double checked that your cabling and hardware configurat

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-16 Thread Phill MV
Alright, sorry about the delay (coffee with friends and school took priority). I upgraded to 2.6.11-gentoo-r4 and emerge'd sync after that. This time around I took my time picking only what I have (I built my previous kernel to run on about 5 different machines) and stripped any reference to SCSI

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
i've cleaned the fstab of adicional /dev/hda2(3) mount and it now works. thank you all again On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 19:29 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Jose Moreira wrote: > > Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the > > vidalinux forums. i dont have a clue abou

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
i did, still no go. With 2.6.9 kernel (the original) it boots, with the 2.6.10 (the new one) i get '/dev/hda3' is not a valid root device and 'CTRL-D for maintainence' On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 19:29 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Jose Moreira wrote: > > Thank you. So what can i do about my prob

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
thank you. i'm a redhat user since RH8 and switched to gentoo based distro's 4 days ago, so 'genkernels' and so confuse me alot. cheers On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 19:24 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Jose Moreira wrote: > > >Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the > >vidal

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Jose Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ive tried updating the fstab from ext2 to reiserfs but then it doesnt > boot :| > Jose, Sorry but I didn't keep the original message. I think the problem Christoph was seeing was that you had something like: /dev/BOOT / ext3. /dev/

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jose Moreira wrote: > Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the > vidalinux forums. i dont have a clue about whats wrong ... grrr > > On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 18:46 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > >>Jose Moreira wrote: >> >>>i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit > >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo > >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home > >directorie

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Brian Truter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The only thing off the top of my head that i can think of is that FC2 > uses devfs and 2005.0 uses udev for your /dev device files > > There are quite a few other differences, but I think they would be minor. > > Are you going to replace F

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Jose Moreira wrote: >Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the >vidalinux forums. i dont have a clue about whats wrong ... grrr > > You will have to fix your fstab file. To try and make clear what others are saying, "/dev/BOOT" and "/dev/ROOT" are not valid device n

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Mark Knecht wrote: > Instead of using useradd to create user accounts can I just edit >/etc/passwd & /etc/group and place identical entries in the Gentoo >side as the FC2 side and then have both distros use the same home >directories? (Without Gentoo actually creating them?) I'd then run >passwd

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
ive tried updating the fstab from ext2 to reiserfs but then it doesnt boot :| On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 09:46 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/16/05, Jose Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong > > tell me and i'll leave, no prob.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Brian Truter
On 4/16/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >Sorry to be a pest but I received no answers on this yet so I > thought I'd try again. > >The machine below is now happily dual booting Gentoo and FC2. I can > mount the FC2 home directory and see the user's directories but there >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
Thank you. So what can i do about my problem? i've posted also to the vidalinux forums. i dont have a clue about whats wrong ... grrr On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 18:46 +0200, Bastian Balthazar Bux wrote: > Jose Moreira wrote: > > i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong > >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 4/16/05, Jose Moreira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong > tell me and i'll leave, no prob. > It's not wrong, but you're the first person I've seen ask about videlinux here. I hadn't even heard of it. Christoph's comment seems a

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Jose Moreira wrote: > i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong > tell me and i'll leave, no prob. > No probs, simply we don't know what differences exist between gentoo and vidalinux, so you will need to "filter" the question you do on this list . for example this ti

[gentoo-user] Re: FC2 to Gentoo conversion

2005-04-16 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, Sorry to be a pest but I received no answers on this yet so I thought I'd try again. The machine below is now happily dual booting Gentoo and FC2. I can mount the FC2 home directory and see the user's directories but there are unassigned owner and group values (500/501/502, etc.) Ins

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
i joined gentoo-users because vidalinux is gentoo-based. if i did rong tell me and i'll leave, no prob. On Sat, 2005-04-16 at 18:09 +0200, Christoph Gysin wrote: > Jose Moreira wrote: > > >hello, im trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.10. I'm using vidalinux > >with genkernel. i followed a guide >

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Jose Moreira wrote: >hello, im trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.10. I'm using vidalinux >with genkernel. i followed a guide >http://forums.vidalinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=2690&highlight=kernel >+upgrade+2+6+10 but after reboot i get 'Error 15: File not found after >kernel grub selection. Also a ge

Re: [gentoo-user] Unslotted duplicates

2005-04-16 Thread George Garvey
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:32:57PM -0700, George Garvey wrote: >I'm getting a lot of duplicates that are not slotted installed. I > use pye almost always, instead of emerge. Has something changed that > broke pye? Has the way that emerge -u works changed? >Cleaning this up is a hassle. I'd

[gentoo-user] kernel upgrade

2005-04-16 Thread Jose Moreira
hello, im trying to upgrade my kernel to 2.6.10. I'm using vidalinux with genkernel. i followed a guide http://forums.vidalinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=2690&highlight=kernel +upgrade+2+6+10 but after reboot i get 'Error 15: File not found after kernel grub selection. Also a get error stating that fsck.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Christoph Gysin
Vittorio wrote: > I've just reshaped the partitions of my laptop hardisk removing a primary > partition /dev/hda3 previously devoted to swap, making a bigger > reiserfs /dev/hda3 and recreatring the swap partition that now is /dev/hda7. > > bash-2.05b# mkswap /dev/hda7 > /dev/hda7: No such file

[gentoo-user] Cannot find /dev/hda7

2005-04-16 Thread Vittorio
I've just reshaped the partitions of my laptop hardisk removing a primary partition /dev/hda3 previously devoted to swap, making a bigger reiserfs /dev/hda3 and recreatring the swap partition that now is /dev/hda7. In a nutshell the partitioned hard disk is now: Primary hda1 ->NTFS Logical

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch then build

2005-04-16 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Benno Schulenberg wrote: Eric S. Johansson wrote: I tried: emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world which only mostly prefetched files (misssed a bunch). Because you're missing the -u on the first emerge? *Do'H* thank you for pointing out what should have been obvious. -- http://www.wired.com/wire

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch then build

2005-04-16 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I tried: > > emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world > > which only mostly prefetched files (misssed a bunch). Because you're missing the -u on the first emerge? Benno -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch then build

2005-04-16 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Jason Stubbs wrote: On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:47, Eric S. Johansson wrote: I frequently find myself fetching packages then building. Reading through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second? I tried: emer

Re: [gentoo-user] fetch then build

2005-04-16 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 16 April 2005 21:47, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > I frequently find myself fetching packages then building. Reading > through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do > both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second? > > I tried: > > emerge -fD

[gentoo-user] fetch then build

2005-04-16 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I frequently find myself fetching packages then building. Reading through the emerged documentation that does not seem to be any way to do both in one step fetch first, and then if successful, fetch second? I tried: emerge -fDva world && emerge -uDv world which only mostly prefetched files (mis

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing libstdc++.la

2005-04-16 Thread Michael Sullivan
I dealt with something like that this morning. I created a soft link in /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/ called 3.3.4 (which did not previously exist) and pointed it at the directory 3.3.5- Folks, > > Tried to emerge grip under kernel-2.6.11 and received this error about a > missing library.

[gentoo-user] Re: control keybindings in mozilla

2005-04-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Harry Putnam wrote: > >>[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago] >> >>I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it >>inappropriate here? >> >>I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box. >> >>

Re: [gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

2005-04-16 Thread Christian Heim
On Saturday 16 April 2005 13:49, Al Bayrouni ( AB )wrote: >Hello, > >I just installed gentoo 3 days ago. > >I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC when >using emerge --sync. Well GENTOO_MIRRORS is a list of all your selected distfiles mirrors. SYNC is your nearest portag

Re: [gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

2005-04-16 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Saturday 16 April 2005 13:49, Al Bayrouni wrote: > I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC > when using emerge --sync. I think that SYNC refers to the mirrors used to sync the portage tree, while GENTOO_MIRRORS list the mirrors used for the actual download of packag

Re: [gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

2005-04-16 Thread Bastian Balthazar Bux
Al Bayrouni wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed gentoo 3 days ago. > > I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC when > using emerge --sync. > > Thank you for your help. > > Al Bayrouni welcome, GENTOO_MIRRORS is used when downloading source packages *not* with "emerge

[gentoo-user] difference between GENTOO_MIRRROS and SYNC

2005-04-16 Thread Al Bayrouni
Hello, I just installed gentoo 3 days ago. I don't understand the difference between GENTOO_MIRRORS and SYNC when using emerge --sync. Thank you for your help. Al Bayrouni -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] control keybindings in mozilla

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
Harry Putnam wrote: >[Repost alert!! - reposted from several days ago] > >I haven't gotten any nibbles on my original post on this topic. Is it >inappropriate here? > >I want to have emacs like keybindings inside the mozilla locator box. > > > I think this will help, although it will affect al

Re: [gentoo-user] X random freeze but mouse still moves

2005-04-16 Thread Richard Fish
MalachiX wrote: >Also, the freezes happen even when not >using OpenGL, so it can't be 3d related. > I wouldn't jump to that conclusion. In my case, I pretty much never used opengl, so it was not a problem for me to remove it from my USE flags. Yet *that* was the change that gave me perfect stab

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing libstdc++.la

2005-04-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
Qv6 wrote: > > Folks, > > Tried to emerge grip under kernel-2.6.11 and received this error about > a missing library. > An ' emerge libstdc++.la -s ' found nothing. > I am running gcc-3.3.5 > > Any clues in resolving this will be apreciated. Here's the error: > > > # > libtool: link: cannot fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing libstdc++.la

2005-04-16 Thread Yuval Scharf
On Saturday 16 April 2005 10:37, Qv6 wrote: > Folks, > > Tried to emerge grip under kernel-2.6.11 and received this error about a > missing library. > An ' emerge libstdc++.la -s ' found nothing. > I am running gcc-3.3.5 > > Any clues in resolving this will be apreciated. Here's the error: > > > ##

[gentoo-user] Missing libstdc++.la

2005-04-16 Thread Qv6
Folks, Tried to emerge grip under kernel-2.6.11 and received this error about a missing library. An ' emerge libstdc++.la -s ' found nothing. I am running gcc-3.3.5 Any clues in resolving this will be apreciated. Here's the error: # libtool: link: cannot find library `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-p

Re: [gentoo-user] netselect

2005-04-16 Thread Marten Karl
Hello. > > I believe the command you want is > > > > mirrorselect > > > > If that doesn't work, here's the line from my /etc/make.conf > > > > GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.netnitco.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo/source/ ftp://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"; > > >