On Wednesday 19 March 2008 8:41:52 am Grant wrote:
> A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was
> the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the
> problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs
> replacement or if I have two dead power
On Monday 30 April 2007 5:01:41 am Stuart Howard wrote:
> Can I for example delete the swap and then create an extended
> partition within the free space and finally create logical partitions
> as required?
>
> Can swap be assigned to an extended/logical partition?
Yes and yes...as an added bonus
On Saturday 07 April 2007 8:54 am, Tony Stohne wrote:
> If not it is clearly a problem with DNS not resolving properly, so check
> your network configuration (/etc/conf.d/net.eth0 or whatever your file
> is called)! Also read the example file in the same directory - it's full
> of valuable info on
On Sunday 25 February 2007 12:55 pm, Dan Farrell wrote:
> but 'IceWeasel' is ugly. Bon Echo is such a nice name.
I'd prefer firefox_alt or something similar. Something that tells me what it
is
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On Saturday 03 February 2007 11:06 am, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.19-gentoo-r6 this morning. I used
> genkernel. I followed these steps:
In the interest of confusion...the .19 kernel sees all hdd's as /dev/sdx
including ide.
Your sda6 is most likely sdb6 or some othe
On Saturday 23 December 2006 4:08 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? I
> want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requests to your servers if
> you're not paying them the rate for a static IP...
Yes and yes. Unless you setup your se
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 2:01 pm, James wrote:
> Steve Brenneis surry.net> writes:
> > I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have
> > determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that.
> >
> > After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM.
On Sunday 29 October 2006 6:49 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> I'm going to borrow a Windows 2000 or XP OS and see if that will install.
> If that fails, or unless someone comes up with any other solutions, I'll
> take the computer back to the shop :-/
It seems to me that bios and grub have different i
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:56 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> >Try running grub, then at the grub command line:
> >>root (hd2,5)
> >>setup /dev/sda
> >>quit
> >
> >-jm
>
> When I run setup /dev/sda, I get the error
> "Error 11: Unrecognised device string"
Try setup "(hd2)"...also I think the root comma
On Sunday 29 October 2006 1:22 pm, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
> Update.
>
> After a little bit of surfing, I tried the command grub-install --recheck
> /dev/sda That changed the device map file so that the /dev/sda drive mapped
> to hd2
>
> The full /boot/grub/device.map listing is now
> (fd0) /dev/fd0
On Saturday 28 October 2006 2:02 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > And DON'T use XFS if you can't afford an UPS.
>
> Unless you're using a laptop.
Solar UPS?
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On Thursday 19 October 2006 7:02 pm, Lord Sauron wrote:
> I have three partitions on my workstation's hard drive.
>
> /dev/sda1 = ntfs (windows)
> /dev/sda3 = linux-swap
> /dev/sda4 = ext3 (SuSE 10.1)
>
> Where sda2 should be used to be and XFS partition for Kubuntu.
>
> My question is thus: how wo
On Wednesday 18 October 2006 10:43 am, Matias Grana wrote:
> Also, when I booted there was a message saying that it couldn't load
> ide-cd. I can't find that message now. I don't have ide-cd compiled into
> the kernel nor as a module, though.
What say "hdparm /dev/hdb" ?
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On Wednesday 27 September 2006 5:10 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> That's not the same as -5ing everything, which is what I was referring to
> and the easy way to toast /etc/fstab.
Can you give an example of *any* situation that would make updating fstab
sensible?
Should never even be considered or
On Thursday 21 September 2006 7:40 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:24:55 +0300, Martins Steinbergs wrote:
> >
> > I looked into this a while ago, asking on this list and elsewhere, and it
> > didn't seem possible to go back to the old KMail behaviour of storing
> > email pa
On Saturday 02 September 2006 8:41 pm, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
> am tired of re-installing Windows 98, and then complete with other
> software (filezilla, 7-zip, extra editors..., OOO). I think perhaps it's
> easier after I re-installed everything I make a backup of the Windows
> partition onto a CDROM
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 3:27 pm, Samuel Baldwin wrote:
> If anyone can show me a good WD or Seagate drive for a similar price and
> the same amount of space, please, do so :) .
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1901400&CatId=134
-jm
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On Monday 08 May 2006 6:43 pm, JimD wrote:
> Do you know what winmodem it is? lspci -v should show something. How
> about in the product specs? Once you have the specific winmodem, post
> it here. Maybe someone has experience with the same winmodem as you.
Best bet is... http://linmodems.techn
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 4:42 pm, David Miller wrote:
> Partimage works pretty well although not exactly as you described. It
> requires a linux server to serve the images I believe. There may be a way
> to use a livecd of some sort to do it locally as you described.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_
On Saturday 11 March 2006 10:19 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> But as you might guess typing a non-command would not produce silence
> as reported.
>
> reiserfschk
> -su: reiserfschk: command not found
>
> So it was a typo, I used the right command and then again adding --check
> after bootup had fin
On Saturday 11 March 2006 9:58 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Giving root pwd and running reiserfschk /dev/hdb6 returns the prompt
> really quick and no output.
No such file "reiserfschk", typo or are you looking for...
Usage: reiserfsck [mode] [options] device
Modes:
--check
On Friday 10 March 2006 8:37 pm, Ash Varma wrote:
> thanks...
> ordered a new drive earlier today.. will probably take the machine offline
> and replace the drive...
Keep in mind that any attempt to backup or copy this drive could be what kills
it completely.
My advice is don't use the drive un
On Monday 30 January 2006 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/floppy
> ls: /dev/floppy: No such file or directory
Check for /dev/floppy/0 (note: floppy is a folder)
If neither /dev/fd0 or /dev/floppy/0 exist then verify the drive is valid via
bios setup.
-jm
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On Saturday 07 January 2006 8:04 am, Martins Steinbergs wrote:
> ReiserFS: hdb9: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find
> reiserfs on hdb9
> thats ok, there is no reisefs, but ext3
Check that /etc/fstab contains a correct entry for hdb9 file system (ext3 not
reiserfs).
-jm
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On Monday 02 January 2006 4:22 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've looked at qmail, it seems postfix blocks it. I suppose I won't be any
> worse off without postfix. I'll read up on qmail and see if it will serve
> my purpose for the short term, but I REALLY want to get kmail working. I'm
> becommi
On Monday 02 January 2006 8:19 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 02 January 2006 08:57, a tiny voice compelled Joe Menola to write:
> > On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starti
On Sunday 01 January 2006 10:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Kmail is broken after cleaning out old kde versions (3.1-3.4) starting it
> from a terminal shows the following when I attempt to send an email.
> Receiving email works properly.
Try deleting and setting up smtp server.
"Check what ser
On Friday 30 December 2005 7:15 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I meant that I compiled ALSA with support for my sound card as
> modules...
Try deleting your config file and rerun alsa conf.
-jm
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On Friday 30 December 2005 6:09 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 18:00 -0600, Joe Menola wrote:
> > On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > > I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsasound it gave all
> > &
On Friday 30 December 2005 5:43 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> I ran alsaconf (again). When it tried to start alsasound it gave all
> those same errors again.
Alsaconf is only used for modular kernels. Running it on compiled in modules
tends to muck up the system pretty good.
The easiest way to
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 5:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What this is all about is that I'm not succeding in overwriting the
> lilo code mbr by running `grub setup'
>
> The grub command succeeds but when I attempt to boot I still get a
> crippled lilo response. By crippled I mean the dread:
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 1:27 pm, Steven Susbauer wrote:
> Where is it posted?
>
> Did plugging this back in end up fixing the problem?
>
> On 1/7/05, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
> It turned out to be unrelated to memory. Just as I posted it had to
> do with what I last had in m
On Saturday 29 October 2005 11:50 pm, Qiangning Hong wrote:
> I know there is memtest86 to test memory. What tool can check health of
> hard disks?
http://grc.com/spinrite.htm
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On Thursday October 6 2005 7:49 pm, Matthias Langer wrote:
> I want to move the /usr and /home directories to another partition,
> because I'm thinking of buying a new HD. It would be great if both
> directories were on the same partition, as splitting drives never seemed
> very appealing to me. As
On Tuesday October 4 2005 8:36 pm, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> or 3) monitor his mozilla history file, if you have access to his home
> directory. If you copied it to your own mozilla directory, you'd get
> dates and times as well as specific links...
>
> (Standard disclaimer about evil monitoring appl
On Wednesday September 21 2005 5:54 pm, Grant wrote:
> > > Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via
> > > portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I
> > > click "Start this virtual machine", nothing happens at all. Does
> > > anyone know why this is
On Wednesday September 21 2005 2:56 pm, Grant wrote:
> Hello, since updating to the latest vmware workstation 4.5 via
> portage, I haven't been able to start my XP virtual machine. When I
> click "Start this virtual machine", nothing happens at all. Does
> anyone know why this is happening?
>
The
On Monday September 5 2005 2:56 pm, Matthew Lee wrote:
> I tried reemerging kdepasswd, it didn't solve the
> problem.
> In answer to the other question the SMTP server does
> require authentication. The settings I have now
> worked fine last week, which is why I'm sure it's
> something on my lapto
On Monday September 5 2005 8:50 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Thanks Brett.
>
> I did think that Windows cared where it's boot loader was and that it
> had to be the first partition on the drive. Is that not true?
>
Windows bootloader needs to be on the first nfs/vfat partition on the boot
drive and th
On Saturday August 27 2005 9:08 pm, John Jolet wrote:
> I like gftp...works in kde, too.
Ditto.
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On Saturday August 27 2005 11:57 am, Kai Ole Schultz wrote:
> On 27 August 2005 18:44 Joe Menola wrote :
> > So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update
> > which creates /somewhere/logical/etc.tar.gz before running etc-update.
>
> Why not use
90% of the time I've broken a Gentoo install has involved etc-update and
admittedly myself doing something stupid.
I've since developed the habit of tarring the /etc directory before running
update.
So I was thinking it would be nice to have a -B option for etc-update which
creates /somewhere/l
On Thursday August 25 2005 10:47 am, Grant wrote:
> I have forgotten the root password of my remote server. Is there any
> way to retrieve or reset it?
>
If you can get access to the root partition (ie:mount from a livecd) and have
a working /etc/passwd with a known password for root, move the or
On Sunday August 21 2005 4:36 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> I noticed that partimage (0.6.4-r3) is available on portage, but
> SystemRescueCd (SystemRescueCd-x86-0.2.15) isn't.
> a) Have you had any problems getting these up and running?
> b) Have you noticed any collisions with adding packages to your
On Sunday August 21 2005 11:24 am, John Dangler wrote:
> I'd like a good backup solution w/boot capability, but mondo is right out!
> It's too flaky at the moment.
> I'd like to get a backup of the system at this stage before adding a
> desktop environment, so that I have somewhere to go back to in
On Saturday August 20 2005 6:13 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> Mike~
> As a matter of fact, no. all the other snd_ modules show, but not intel8x0
>
> Thanks for the assistance. This is beginning to give me a slight
> headache...
You will still need alsa-drivers if you have built snd_intel8x0 as a mod
On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> Joe~
> That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m)
Just peeked at my config, looks like alsa also has to be modular, as well.
# Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
#
CONFIG_SND=m
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On Saturday August 20 2005 5:02 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> Joe~
> That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m)
Hmmm, no reason for alsaconf to fail then. Unless you skipped/forgot "make
modules_install?
What say "modprobe intel8x0" ?
-jm
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On Saturday August 20 2005 4:27 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> if you had kernel support built-in, and running alsaconf was what caused
> the problem (which I think is what caused this problem as well), why would
> you rerun alsaconf after recompiling the kernel ? wouldn't that cause the
> same problem
On Saturday August 20 2005 2:42 pm, John Dangler wrote:
> my /etc/modules.d/alsa file contained this (after alsaconf)
> alias snd-card-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]:
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-*** err [lib/liblow.c(329)]:
>
> I changed it to
> alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
> alias sound-slot-0 sn
After messing up my eth1 via manual configuration, and discovering that
net-setup wasn't on my disc, I reverted back to dhcp by copying net.sample to
net.
Searching the forums enlightened me to the fact that net-setup is part of the
livecd-tools build.
I'm thinking that net-setup should be part
On Wednesday August 17 2005 9:02 pm, Pupeno wrote:
> I have all as modules, maybe I am just missing to load it.
Personally, I would compile them into kernel.
You can get the module names from menuconfig/xconfig by selecting them and
choosing help.
Modprobe them, then hdparm /dev/hda. If dma is n
On Wednesday August 17 2005 7:56 pm, Pupeno wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 August 2005 18:44, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > A quick test would be
> >
> > hdparm
>
> I got this:
> /dev/hda:
> Timing cached reads: 1344 MB in 2.00 seconds = 672.10 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads:8 MB in 3.51 seconds
On Monday August 15 2005 7:20 pm, darren kirby wrote:
> Hello,
> # chown -R root /usr/share/i18n/locales
> chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/[EMAIL PROTECTED]': Permission
> denied chown: cannot access `/usr/share/i18n/locales/tig_ER': Permission
> denied chown: cannot access `/usr/shar
On Monday August 15 2005 6:45 pm, darren kirby wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been having some problems getting glibc installed. It builds just
> fine, but when it comes time to move the files into the live filesystem it
> craps out with this error:
>
>
>
> >>> /usr/share/i18n/locales/oc_FR
> >>>
On Sunday August 14 2005 8:48 pm, Zac Medico wrote:
> You can export variables in the shell (not generally recommended) or put
> them directly on the command line.
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -s foo
>
> It's best to use /etc/portage/package.keywords to keep your package
> specific keywords (d
On Sunday August 14 2005 5:43 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
> On Aug 14, 2005, at 5:05 PM, Joe Menola wrote:
> > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
> >> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly
> >> support
> >> the latest updates a
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:38 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> Unstable does not really cut it IMHO. I am a gentoo enthusiast through
> and through, but plonking something in portage with a ~ beside it does
> not constitute a release of a recent version IMHO.
Can you name any version of Linux where version
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:37 pm, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500
>
> Joe Menola wrote:
> > On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
> > > Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly
> > > support the
On Sunday August 14 2005 4:22 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:05:22 -0500, Joe Menola wrote:
> > I've built both Gentoo and LFS. A side by side comparison comes up
> > pretty much equal. Except for documentation, where Gentoo wins hands
> > down.
On Sunday August 14 2005 2:42 pm, Paul Hoy wrote:
> Linux from Scratch looks very interesting: it appears to rapidly support
> the latest updates and it has decent documentation. Does any one have any
> perspectives on Linux from Scratch, from a Gentoo point-of-view? Does
> anyone wish to share a c
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