Jeremi Piotrowski writes:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a
>> time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff.
>
> Many thing's can be removed with `emerge -C` and recovered from, but I
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> The only thing I can say on my own behalf is that there was once a
> time when it wasn't so far fetched to start emerge -vC 'ing stuff.
Many thing's can be removed with `emerge -C` and recovered from, but I doubt
unmerging packages in @syste
Rich Freeman writes:
> Uh, not to drag you through the mud, but what gave you the idea to try
> that? I'm mainly interested so that we can go fix it if there is some
> document that is leading people astray.
I seriously doubt there is any such document ... My troubles stemmed
from the exact opp
Rich Freeman writes:
> I'd suggest not doing stuff like this in the future.
I got a bigger laugh out of this than anything I've seen for a while.
Such a mild statement... covering seriously demented mistakes.
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Either way, you should be back up and running come Thursday latest :-)
> Hey, this is Gentoo, here we like watching gcc outpt scroll by for
> hours/days at a time.
Hehe ... It did take a while but partly because of some trouble
vbox itself... but mainly due to serious
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> > Are you going to roll out some "notes" on putting
> > raid-1::btrfs onto HD? Or just the VM install?
Sure. What about an example fstab using names and UUIDs
at the same time, or and fstab with UUID and one with labels
if they cannot be used simultaneously in
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> [1] Reminds me of an old joke:
>
> Q: What's the second worst sound you can hear a sysadmin make?
> A: Uh-oh
> Q: And the worst sound?
> A: Oops
>
> Looks like you had an oops moment there
I have quite a few of those Uh oh moments. I think top on my list tho is
oh crap.
On 24/08/2015 18:49, Jeremi Piotrowski wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>
>> Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
>>
>
> My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
> your install and voila.
>
I knew there was a way t
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I
> have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds plus other
> truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system
> unusable just like the li
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:36 AM, James wrote:
> Are you going to roll out some "notes" on putting
> raid-1::btrfs onto HD? Or just the VM install?
>
The notes should work just fine for installing that on an HD. Is
there something you found missing in them?
The only thing they aren't targeted a
On Mon, 24 Aug 2015, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> Or you can get a binary package from anywhere else you trust.
>
My personal favourite: chroot into a stage3 and quickpkg gcc. Then copy to
your install and voila.
Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes:
> In any case, the notes as they currently stand are not something I'd
> recommend to a new user. They're fine for experienced users looking
> for the "short version." When I get them integrated into the handbook
> I think it will be an overall improvement and u
On 24/08/2015 16:46, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon writes:
>
> Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
> probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
> (suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
> uninstalling some of
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:46 AM, James wrote:
>
> Hello Harry. Gentoo has the handbook for it's main install. A bit of a drag
> but good for for a refresher or leaning.
>
> Rich put up an excellent set of VM gentoo install instructins [1]:
My main goals with those notes (I wouldn't call them inst
Alan McKinnon writes:
Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
(suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
uninstalling some of the blockers.
So, I've made the mess considerably w
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On 24/08/15 23:59, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>>>
I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Re
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Alec Ten Harmsel
wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>>
>> > I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
>> > stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> >
Harry Putnam newsguy.com> writes:
> My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
Hello Harry. Gentoo has the handbook for it's main install. A bit of a drag
but good for for a refresher or leaning.
Rich put up an excellent set of VM gentoo install instructins [1]:
>
On 24/08/2015 15:35, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>
>> I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
>> stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
>> reinstalled months earlier than I did.
>
> Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted l
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 09:35:36AM -0400, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie writes:
>
> > I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
> > stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
> > reinstalled months earlier than I did.
>
> Thanks for the frank
Alan Mackenzie writes:
> I'd recommend you then just to reinstall. Remembering my fights with
> stupid error messages from emerge, and so on, I wish I'd just
> reinstalled months earlier than I did.
Thanks for the frank suggestions and noted lack unix hero
talk... hehe.
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