Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > I modified the boot options to have a debugging OS on my DHCP for LAN: > drscott ~ # grep netboot /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default > APPEND rescue64 scandelay=1 > netboot=http://[2a01:cb08:898c:fc00::1]/sysrcd.dat docache setkma

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 31/12/18 6:26 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I modified the boot options to have a debugging OS on my DHCP for LAN: >> drscott ~ # grep netboot /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default >> APPEND rescue64 scandelay=1 >> netboot=http://

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Mick
On Monday, 31 December 2018 10:26:06 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > kernel netboot > > > > Hope this helps. > > Hmm. Not sure it does. I'd have to consider the work in changing the .iso. > As I couldn't even mount it -oloop to write

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 31 December 2018 13:19:49 GMT Mick wrote: > On Monday, 31 December 2018 10:26:06 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > kernel netboot > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > Hmm. Not sure it does. I'd have to consider the work in

[gentoo-user] an issue with issue, an agetty bug?

2018-12-31 Thread »Q«
After upgrading to sys-apps/util-linux-2.33-r1, I can no longer find a way to put literal backslash characters into /etc/issue properly. For many years, '\\' in the issue file would result in a single backslash being printed. I don't think this was ever documented; it's just the natural way to e

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Mick
On Monday, 31 December 2018 15:40:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 31 December 2018 13:19:49 GMT Mick wrote: > > On Monday, 31 December 2018 10:26:06 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > > kernel netboot > > > > > > > > Hope t

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 31 December 2018 16:00:34 GMT Mick wrote: > On Monday, 31 December 2018 15:40:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Monday, 31 December 2018 13:19:49 GMT Mick wrote: > > > On Monday, 31 December 2018 10:26:06 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.31 05:26, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 30 December 2018 19:03:31 GMT Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > I modified the boot options to have a debugging OS on my DHCP for LAN: > drscott ~ # grep netboot /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default > APPEND rescue64 scandelay=1 > netboot=http://[2a

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread J. Roeleveld
On December 31, 2018 6:29:16 PM UTC, Peter Humphrey wrote: >On Monday, 31 December 2018 16:00:34 GMT Mick wrote: >> On Monday, 31 December 2018 15:40:48 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: >> > On Monday, 31 December 2018 13:19:49 GMT Mick wrote: >> > > On Monday, 31 December 2018 10:26:06 GMT Peter Humphr

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 31 December 2018 22:21:20 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote: > Strange, are you running some kind of hardened environment where you > restrict root as well? Nope. Nothing non-standard at all. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 31 December 2018 19:01:16 GMT Jack wrote: > Couldn't you just dd it to a USB drive (without needing to mount the > iso first) and then mount the drive? I did do that, then tried to boot the USB drive. It wouldn't boot. -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-31 Thread Jack
On 2018.12.31 21:20, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday, 31 December 2018 19:01:16 GMT Jack wrote: > Couldn't you just dd it to a USB drive (without needing to mount the > iso first) and then mount the drive? I did do that, then tried to boot the USB drive. It wouldn't boot. Why didn't it boot?

[gentoo-user] Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2018-12-31 Thread Dale
Howdy, With the newer Firefox versions, I've noticed something weird about downloading files.  Usually these are videos using a download helper for videos and sometimes it is a normal file download, depends on the site.  Either way, I get something odd at times.  So far, I've yet to see any rhyme

[gentoo-user] Re: Firefox, downloading files and odd behavior.

2018-12-31 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 01/01/2019 06:45, Dale wrote: [...] [ebuild   R   ~] www-client/firefox-64.0::gentoo For what it's worth, I never had that problem with the official Mozilla build of Firefox (www-client/firefox-bin). Might be worth trying that instead. Don't forget to "quickpkg firefox" and back up your ~/.m