Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2024-12-02 Thread mad . scientist . at . large
usually in laptops which become dirty (they all do, and it's very difficult to take them apart and clean and reassemble) the hard drive is the first thing to fail completely.  A dying hard drive can easily slow/halt boot.  CPU/GPU are likely next along with the power supplies for those chips. 

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Very slow POST process

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Wednesday 29 November 2023 00:16:11 GMT you wrote: > On Tuesday, 28 November 2023 15:49:10 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 11/28/23 03:38, Michael wrote: > > > Over the last 8-9 months I noticed an old Lenovo G505s laptop is > > > spending > > > a > > > long time in the POST process, before eventu

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS mounting - SOLVED

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Tuesday 26 November 2024 16:13:01 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > [New readers start here... :) ] > > I've spent several days-worth of my time over the last few weeks in trying > to get my i5 box to export its portage tree and packages directory to a > chroot on my M9 machine. I r

Re: [gentoo-user] Test

2024-12-02 Thread Michael Minor
Hello Peter. On Mon, 2 Dec 2024 at 06:23 Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello? Hello? > > Is anyone here? > > I haven't received anything from the list since Tuesday. > > -- > Regards, > Peter. > > > > >

[gentoo-user] Installing "kde-frameworks/kguiaddons" from binhost

2024-12-02 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Greetings, in order to speed-up the routine Gentoo updates of "@world" on my lap- top I started to install packages I do not explicitly specify USE flags for from the binhost. But this recently lead to a minor problem: while versions 6.5.0-r1, 6.6.0 and 6.7.0 of this package installed from

Re: [gentoo-user] Test

2024-12-02 Thread Michael
On Monday 2 December 2024 11:22:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello? Hello? > > Is anyone here? I'm still here ... > I haven't received anything from the list since Tuesday. I was about to reply to your message from Tuesday, but I'm elbow deep in a laptop open heart surgery and can't leave it

[gentoo-user] Test

2024-12-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello? Hello? Is anyone here? I haven't received anything from the list since Tuesday. -- Regards, Peter.