On 28/01/2014 14:54, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 Jan 2014 14:26:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> You could even go so far as to auto-convert all info pages yourself at
>> emerge time by hooking a custom script into portage's phase hooks. Then
>> view it locally in a browser; the info in info
On Tuesday 28 Jan 2014 14:26:43 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> You could even go so far as to auto-convert all info pages yourself at
> emerge time by hooking a custom script into portage's phase hooks. Then
> view it locally in a browser; the info in info pages is actually very
> good (far better than in
On 28/01/2014 13:38, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to
>> bite
>> the bullet and had to learn how to use info.
>
>> Regards
>> Peter
>
> I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit
> q to
> I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to bite
> the bullet and had to learn how to use info.
> Regards
> Peter
I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit q
to get out.
Reading the info file as plain text worked better
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 16:04:44 I wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:42:54 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
> > > On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
> > > >
> > > > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> > >
> > >
On Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:19:53 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Entering info:// as a URL in konqueror gives a page with all info ages
> > on the system listed.
> >
> > info:/ opens that one directly
>
> That explains it then. I can't remember the last time I used Konqueror
> for anything. And o
On 27/01/2014 18:19, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 27 Jan 2014 18:07:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> The variables you can set in h
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
>> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
>> >
>> > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>>
>> Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 18:07:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
> >>>
>
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:40:44 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
> > >
> > > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> >
> > Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find
> > out what that definiti
On 27/01/2014 18:00, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
>>>
>>> Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded fr
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:42:54 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
> > On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
> > >
> > > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> >
> > Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I
On Monday 27 Jan 2014 09:38:32 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
> >
> > Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded from the grub
> > site.
>
> Not if you use KD
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
> >
> > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>
> Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find
> out what that definition translates to. I'm searching now...
Just run grob-mkconfig
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > The variables you can set in here are documented in the info pages.
>
> Also, and much easier to read, in an HTML file downloaded from the grub
> site.
Not if you use KDE :P
--
Neil Bothwick
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On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
> >
> > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>
> Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find out
> what that definition translates to. I'm searchin
On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed
> > properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25
> > line display instead of the frame buf
On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 20:08:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Yes, that does enable all the line-drawing characters to be displayed
> properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25
> line display instead of the frame buffer.
Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
#GRUB_TERM
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 12:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> grub2 is able to load any font you like; you just need to convert it
> to "pf2" format using the grub-mkfont utility. You may need to enable
> the truetype use flag to get that installed.
>
> By default, it provides a font called "unifont", w
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 16:42:21 -0500, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> I have heard good things about extlinux.
>
> http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php/EXTLINUX
Ah yes, the bootloader for people that hate reading docs. I battled with
syslinux n DVDs for quite a while, but ended up switching to using GRUB2
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mick wrote:
> Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an
> alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex
> than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements?
>
> I have used grub2 on some Ubuntu and Kubuntu in
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> > Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to
> > grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar result. Meanwhile I'v
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey
> wrote:
>> > Any ideas anyone?
>>
>> Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what
>> your old menu.lst did.
>
>
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey
wrote:
> > Any ideas anyone?
>
> Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what
> your old menu.lst did.
--->8
Well, what a gent! I didn't mean to imply that someone shoul
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Any ideas anyone?
>
Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what
your old menu.lst did.
root=(hd0,msdos1)
timeout=10
default=0
fallback=3
color_normal=white/blue
color_highlight=black/light-gray
insmod all_video
term
Tanstaafl wrote:
>On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel
>versions
>> manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some
>elementary bash-
>> ing and copy&pasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot
>options
On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel versions
manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some elementary bash-
ing and copy&pasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot options thrown
away by switching to a
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