Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 29 Mar 2014 16:41:10 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too > > > AFAIR. > > > > Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in > > /etc/passwd, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 29 Mar 2014 10:07:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I don't think it's down to the shell, sysresccd includes bash too > > AFAIR. > > Yes, bash is present, but root (superuser) has /bin/zsh as its shell in > /etc/passwd, so bash scripts aren't run on login. Ah yes, I see what you mea

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 28 Mar 2014 21:08:02 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it > > > is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the > > > LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on t

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it > > is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the > > LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser. > > I had a poke around and di

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a > > method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all > > the extras I wanted in, e.g.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the initramfs part of the boot). It was basically like this: - install a bare bones

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
Everyday learning something that's why I like Linux and, in special, Gentoo. Thanks Francisco 2014-03-28 12:26 GMT-03:00 Nilesh Govindrajan : > On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, "Francisco Ares" wrote: > > > > Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for > mount partitions, it

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, "Francisco Ares" wrote: > > Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the initramfs part of the boot).

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
To auto log-in, I use a feature of "agetty": On /etc/inittab: # TERMINALS # c1:12345:respawn:/usr/bin/fbi -a -noverbose --nocomments /etc/splash/natural_altec/images/silent-1024x768.jpg c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux c3:2345:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a > > method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all > > the extras I wanted in, e.g.,

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a > method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all > the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/local/bin. > > It works well, except that I haven't fou

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Yohan Pereira
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:27 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 18:42:46 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > --->8 > >> What other distros are suited for this use case? > > I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a method > I found on the Web to include a p

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 18:42:46 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: --->8 > What other distros are suited for this use case? I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all the extras I wanted in, e.g., /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 22-Mar-2014 6:56 pm, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 22/03/2014 15:12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, "Alan McKinnon" > > wrote: > >> > >> On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >> > On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/03/2014 15:12, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: >> >> On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> > On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 22-Mar-2014 6:39 pm, "Alan McKinnon" wrote: > > On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > > On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > >>> > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Since I don't have a lap

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/03/2014 15:00, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" > wrote: >> >> >> On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my >>> USB 3 pen drive. I'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 22-Mar-2014 5:42 pm, "Brian Hesdorfer" wrote: > > > On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my >> USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive >> lives long. >> >> Has anybody tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-22 Thread Brian Hesdorfer
On 3/21/2014 9:53 PM, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: Hi, Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive lives long. Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the traditional ext4/xfs/et

[gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-21 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
Hi, Since I don't have a laptop, I'm thinking of installing Gentoo on my USB 3 pen drive. I'll use binpkgs from my desktop so that pen drive lives long. Has anybody tried Samsung's F2FS? I heard it performs better than the traditional ext4/xfs/etc on flash drives. Also the pen drive will be used