On Friday 21 December 2007 18:46:52 Mick wrote:
> The problem with some distros installation scripts is that they are
> trying to be too clever for their own good. As a result they some times
> behave like MS Windows and unless you whip them into submission they
> could trash your system!
Exactl
On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 08:13:35 +0100, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
> You are right that XP should work - or you can install it on a virtual
> machine. I am not sure what advantages you get from running vmware from
> a partition (unless of course you also want to dual boot).
I doubt that would work. Th
On Saturday 22 December 2007 20:09:40 David Relson wrote:
> As I'm a paludis newbie and as it allows a multitude of settings, I used
> portage2paludis.bash to create /etc/paludis/use.conf. Whatever is
> missing from use.conf is a combination of my ignorance and the script.
>
> A copy of use.conf i
> > I just finished a re-install of my laptop to get multilib working and
> > grub apparently can't find the kernel this time. I've tried grub and
> > grub-static. I get this:
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root:
> > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3
> > Error 15: File not found
>
> There should be no space between /boot and /kernel.
Actually just a transcription error.
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On Sunday 23 December 2007, Grant wrote:
> > When the grub menu comes up, hit e twice and then try to use tab
> > completion to find it and the arrow keys to navigate. That may
> > help. Tab completion works like it does in a console. Sort of neat
> > really.
>
> Great! Tab competion is awesome
In a "routine" upgrade, I get the following message from several
haskell components:
* The package dev-haskell/cabal is not correctly installed for
* the currently active version of ghc (6.8.2). Please
* run ghc-updater or re-emerge dev-haskell/cabal.
So I tried running ghc-updater, and it han
Grant wrote:
> Great! Tab competion is awesome. I had to specify the path like so:
>
> kernel /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root=/dev/sda3
>
> instead of /boot/kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8. Does anyone know why that
> might be? Thanks Dale.
IIRC, grub-install creates a symlink in /boot named "boot
Hi folks,
any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where I
can find it?
I looked around in portage but couldn't find it. Maybe it just isn't there.
Uwe
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Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2007 schrieb Uwe Thiem:
> any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where I
> can find it?
>
> I looked around in portage but couldn't find it. Maybe it just isn't there.
It doesn't need to be, you can "emerge g-cpan" and use it to emerge any per
> Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:33:52 -0800
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Just to clarify: What does a 'pre-compiled binary' do?
I meant just regular binary files, which have been compiled -- as opposed
to the source files (non-compiled ;) ). Sorry for being unclear. :)
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On Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:45:03 +0100
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Saturday 22 December 2007 20:09:40 David Relson wrote:
> > As I'm a paludis newbie and as it allows a multitude of settings, I
> > used portage2paludis.bash to create /etc/paludis/use.conf.
> > Whatever is missing from use.conf is a
On 23 December 2007, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 23. Dezember 2007 schrieb Uwe Thiem:
> > any idea whether portage contains perl's Chatbot::Eliza. And if so, where
> > I can find it?
> >
> > I looked around in portage but couldn't find it. Maybe it just isn't
> > there.
>
> It doesn't need
> I doubt that would work. The virtual machine
> identifies itself as
> different "hardware" from the host, so the MS
> profit-protection would
> kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same
> copy of the OS on two
> different computers.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
Mebbe I'm confusing wine
On Thursday 20 December 2007, Stroller wrote:
> > ... I was expecting something
> > similar to when I've hotplugged SATA drives on my desktop machine.
>
> What controller is in that, please?
>
> Does it do hardware RAID, or is it just a regular SATA controller?
I've done it using both the onboard c
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.19 to 2.6.23 and it takes almost a
minute for X to start now.
I have changed window managers (normally ctwm, tested with twm) with the
same results. I rebooted the 2.6.19 kernel and X fires right up as
expected. Booting back to 2.6.23 and it's excruciatingly lo
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This
> seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company
> as Maxtor I wonder?
I've been told Hitachi bought up IBM's drive manufacturing operati
On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600
>
> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This
> > seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by the same company
> > as Maxtor I wonder?
>
> I'v
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Montag, 24. Dezember 2007, Dan Farrell wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:08:36 -0600
>>
>> Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> It makes me wonder if the drives are "sensitive" to something. This
>>> seems to be common with Maxtor. Is Hitachi made by t
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