Re: [gentoo-user] binary package installation problem

2005-11-17 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 17 November 2005 05:18, askar k wrote: > > A guess would be that the packages that portage want's to compile > > isn't on the CD. Not all packages from portage is there... Check tha > > package names and versions that want's to compile against the CD. > > > > -- > > Naga > > Thanks. See

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel build no update grub

2005-11-16 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 22:24, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Updating the kernel today, I referenced that piece of the > > documentation and borrowed this command from it: > > > > genkernel --bootloader=grub all > > > > However, not only did it not update

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE GUI for network settings

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 03 November 2005 03:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 2 Nov 2005 17:01:46 -0600, Qv6 wrote: > > Don't expect to find it with "emerge knetworkconf". Just wait for > > kde-3.5 > > It's not in beta2. Just to report that I got it working. After a bit of tweaking, I managed to get his eb

Re: [gentoo-user] The attractive terminal on the installation disk?

2005-11-14 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 14 November 2005 03:11, Anthony Roy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting on pretty well with Gentoo at the moment - I've found it > a great way to install Linux and get to know just how it all works and > holds together. I am using it for a server machine, and so I am not > running X. > > My

Re: [gentoo-user] unattended installation

2005-10-24 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 24 October 2005 15:13, Eric Waguespack wrote: > apologies if this isn't the best mailer to send this under, but I was > curious, is there an "unattended installation" project for Gentoo? It > would help with mass deployments... I was going to try and come up > with a bash script but I fig

Re: [gentoo-user] Windows on a second drive?

2005-09-08 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 05 September 2005 08:38 am, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >Is it possible to put Windows XP an a second drive in a Linux box > and have Windows be happy? > > 1) I'm pretty sure that grub will have no problems with this, correct? > > 2) Will Windows be happy if it's the only OS on a non-boo

Re: [gentoo-user] lvm2/external partitions question

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:50 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, >My new A8N-E/AMD64 hardware came up the first time. SATA/DVD/CDRW > all seen. LiveCD boots fine. memtest86 has been running for the last > hour and looks good so far. All looks good so I'll start a Gentoo > install pretty soon. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How to shred without deleting /dev/*

2005-08-29 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 29 August 2005 07:01 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: > Hi All, > > I was blanking a floppy but when I ran: > > $ shred -u -v /dev/fd0 > > /dev/fd0 was dully deleted after the shred operation finished. Rebooting > the machine relaunched udev which rec

Re: [gentoo-user] stage files

2005-08-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 24 August 2005 01:32 pm, John Jolet wrote: > Can someone point me to a reference that explains how to make your > own stage files? It seemed to me that the stage3 stage file was > pretty much a bzipped tar file of an installed system. Is this > correct, or is there more to it? I've

Re: [gentoo-user] [asking again] keyboard/mouse woes on 2.6 kernel

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 17 August 2005 10:10 pm, Ben Munat wrote: > > I recently did a fresh install of 2005.0 on a AMD thunderbird-based > machine. I wasn't in the mood for kernel configuring, so I just let > genkernel do it's thing, installing a 2.6 kernel. > There is your first mistake right there. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't get ALSA OSS Emulation to work

2005-08-17 Thread Chris Cox
On 8/16/05, Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I feel really stupid. It wasn't the permission, but to get both quake > and enemy territory to play , they have to be given direct access to > the sound hardware. To do that, you must go to > /proc/asound/cardX/pcm0p/ an

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Cox
On Tuesday 16 August 2005 02:28 pm, Holly Bostick wrote: > Chris Cox schreef: > > On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Nagatoro schreef: > >>>John Dangler wrote: > >>>>doesn't do it, either. what else could I b

Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-16 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 15 August 2005 12:57 am, Holly Bostick wrote: > Nagatoro schreef: > > John Dangler wrote: > >> doesn't do it, either. what else could I be missing? > > > > From my /boot/grub/grub.conf > > --- > > kernel (hd0,0)/kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6.4 root=/dev/hda2\ > >video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,[EM

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-svn problems

2005-08-15 Thread Chris Cox
On Friday 12 August 2005 04:51 pm, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: > After running emerge -depclean -p I am trying to remove some old kde-svn > builds I was playing around with some time back as I think that might be > what is giving me KDE problems. I get this error. > How do I get rid of that stuff? >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 04 August 2005 04:41 pm, Daniel da Veiga wrote: > Well, if you use genkernel, it should automatically place the initrd > and the kernel image at your /boot (at least it does for me). Maybe > check your genkernel command to compile the kernel. > Whats wrong with compiling a kernel the n

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? > You never asked a stupid question? > No I thought not. > Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... > > *sigh* I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 06:20 pm, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > [quote] > Let the world know that you run on Gentoo Linux. > > Put a Powered by Gentoo image on your Gentoo powered web sites or use > a Gentoo Badge on your web page, blog, forum signature or elsewhere > and link back to http://www.gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] backup & restore solution?

2005-07-30 Thread Chris Cox
On Saturday 30 July 2005 12:24 pm, Jarry wrote: > Hi, > > I am now looking for some sort of backup & restore solution which would > help me to get my gentoo-server up and running after fatal disk failure. > > I want to burn at regular intervals compressed partition images of disk > on internal dvd/

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > Most of the dual boot guides suggest adding linux after windows; in my case > I have a working gentoo linux system in place that I don't want to sack, > I'd rather just add windows to the new drive. > > Anyone out there have a good pointer fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Good reference for installing windows *after* linux?

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 10:21 am, Dave Nebinger wrote: > I've been doing research about finding a way to install windows on my > gentoo box (don't flame me, I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't have to). > > I've got a spiffy new 80gb drive which is available at /dev/hdb that I plan > on using as the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 3.4

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Cox
On Monday 25 July 2005 08:21 am, Mark Humphrey wrote: > Anyone know... when is a Gentoo release with packages disk with KDE 3.4 > expected? > > No idea. But you could always use catalyst to build your own packages CD. -- Chris Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 09:02:57 up 1 day, 36

Re: [gentoo-user] Listing directories with size greater than...

2005-07-23 Thread Chris Cox
On Friday 22 July 2005 09:17 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > I need some help with listing home directories that are greater than i > given size. I have tried > find /home -type d -size +5k > and > find /home -type d -size +5k -iname "*" > Both without much success... > > Any help will be :D > Ch

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev permissions

2005-07-18 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 19 June 2005 06:09 pm, Qv6 wrote: > Hello: > > Just looked under /dev and observed that the ownership of all the > entries are root:root with mostly 555 permissions. Is this the default > or do I have to change anything? Here's a snip from "ls -l /dev" > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 10

Re: [gentoo-user] Blacklist pcspkr module

2005-05-10 Thread Chris Cox
On Wednesday 04 May 2005 09:43 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I;m really getting irritated by the pcspkr module. It keeps beeping and > making lots of noise. > > I can't control it via the sound/volume manager, all I can do is to > rmmod the module. But, how/what is the best way to Blacklist this module

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update world and kde monolithic to splits upgrade

2005-05-03 Thread Chris Cox
On Tuesday 03 May 2005 02:47 am, Ezequiel Tolnay wrote: > Hi, I've just unmerged the monolithic kde and merged all the kde splits. > Everything's OK up to here, but now when I try to "merge --update world > --deep --pretend" it is trying to merge the old monolithic kde, of > course complaining of t

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo and XP on hda without causing World War III -- impossible? (help)

2005-05-02 Thread Chris Cox
On Sunday 01 May 2005 03:06 pm, Maxim Vexler wrote: > oops, sorry my mistake. > windows (fat32) is on hda6. > hda5 is ext3 which is mapped as /home. > > The grub syntax is correct, sorry for the confusion. > I tried that setup once and never could get it working on an extended partition. -- Ch