[gentoo-user] Re: VIDEO_CARDS= apparently ignored and new pkgs assigned

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Thu, 02 Mar 2017 00:07:50 -0500 schrieb Harry Putnam : > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram > > I'm having a situation where way too many packages are coming up > needing rebuilt during emerge wo

[gentoo-user] [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Harry Putnam
I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't remember ever running into anything like this. I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least no evidence of boot manager or fs having been instal

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 03 Apr 2017 14:11:40 -0400 schrieb Harry Putnam : > I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't > remember ever running into anything like this. > > I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the > state it was in when new... Not sure what that state

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread tuxic
On 04/03 02:11, Harry Putnam wrote: > I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't > remember ever running into anything like this. > > I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the > state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but at least > no e

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow wrote: > > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you > need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX > If it contains data you'd prefer not be recoverable you might want to use shred or ATA s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Apr 02, 2017 at 08:52:57PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote > If you don't *need* an xorg.conf (and you don't, otherwise you'd know > :-P) then it's best to not have one. This state of affairs seems to have evolved slowly. There wasn't one version where it worked for nobody, immediately

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I probably should know this, but off the top of my head I don't > remember ever running into anything like this. > > I'd like to do what ever is done to set a used disk back to the > state it was in when new... Not sure what that state is, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: A reason *NOT* to have xorg.conf file

2017-04-03 Thread karl
Walter Dnes: ... > This state of affairs seems to have evolved slowly. There wasn't one > version where it worked for nobody, immediately followed by the next > version that worked for everybody. Years ago, X would not run without > an xorg.conf file. Then X started being able to properly auto

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Tools for putting HDD back to new state

2017-04-03 Thread Kai Krakow
Am Mon, 3 Apr 2017 16:15:24 -0400 schrieb Rich Freeman : > On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Kai Krakow > wrote: > > > > Just dd /dev/zero to the complete device. That purges everything you > > need: partition tables, boot sectors, contents: > > > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX > > > > If it co

[gentoo-user] soliciting a DHCP lease / carrier lost

2017-04-03 Thread thelma
The new box I installed in remote location has a problem obtaining IP address. The box was working perfectly on my local LAN. In remote location I assigned static IP to it 10.10.0.5 Previously this IP was assigned to a Virtual Box but I no longer use it, so I assign this IP to a new box. The box