Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread John Jolet
Fdisk -l On 2/10/06 3:41 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to determine if a partition is formated, and the type > of formating, other than trying to mount it? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Jolet
Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:03 -0800, Mike Owen wrote: >> On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Fdisk -l > > no!!! > >> Even easier: >> waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 >> /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (bl

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-11 Thread John Myers
On Friday 10 February 2006 20:05, Iain Buchanan wrote: > are you sure? At least for fdisk, (and maybe for 'file' as well) this > will just show what you've "told" the partition it is. > 'file' determines filetypes primarily by looking for 'magic numbers' within the file, so 'file' should indeed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 11:21 AM, "Gilberto Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 13:30 -0300, Gilberto Martins wrote: >> Hi again ... >> ---cut--- Then, kindly selected GRUB, and did this simple /boot/grub.conf file: default 0 timeout 0 splashimage=(dhb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 12:12 PM, "Gilberto Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It can be called anything, but the file name you give it in /boot, of >> course, has to be the one you call out in the grub.conf line. So, you copy >> (for instance) arch/i386/boot/bzImage to /boot/kernel-kernelversion (I >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
> > Ummm... isn't there supposed to be a system.map for the kernel as well? > > I myself don't manually copy my kernels after compiling it; I use make > install to do so, and I have the following files in /boot for all my > kernels: I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 5:28 PM, "Holly Bostick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I've never done anything with a system.map. I manually copy it >> myself to allow me to name them whatever I want. >> >> > Well, that's my point, sort of... what exactly do you copy, and has that > file been copied to Gilberto

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Can bash do comments on files?

2006-02-12 Thread John Jolet
On 2/12/06 6:10 PM, "Iain Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:47 +1000, Alan E. Davis wrote: >> On 2/13/06, Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Under linux that's not nessecary >>> as you can just use long filenames including spaces.. >>> >> >> I do tha

Re: [gentoo-user] Any one using linux version of truecrypt

2006-02-13 Thread John King
There is an ebuild in bugzilla. On 2/13/06, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just tried compiling truecrypt newest version 4.1 and cannot get it > working or make enough sense out of errors to debug. > > Since it is OT (not available in portage, but is available as source) > I'm just as

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] find list of files and then copy them

2006-02-15 Thread John Jolet
On 2/15/06 11:10 AM, "Marco Calviani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list, >i know this is OT for this list, but it deals in general with linux. > I need to search and copy a list of files that end with a particular > extension and belong to a certain user: i've managed this part with > >

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 9:04 AM, "Martin Eisenhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Hm, as I said before - have a look at LVM. It makes >> life *SO* much easier. I don't quite get, why people >> still do the old style partitioning. >> >> For example, in your setup, how do you make /

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
On 2/16/06 11:05 AM, "Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 16 February 2006 16:10 >> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org >> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problems with GRUB in the >> installation

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Problems with GRUB in the installation of Gentoo

2006-02-16 Thread John Jolet
> > I am confused: how many 'make install's are there? Don't they 'all' do the > same? Are we talking about a customised (hacked) make install here? Install is a target to make. Install_modules is a target to make. What's confusing? Make is a command. Install or install_modules, or install_

RE: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout

2006-02-17 Thread John Jolet
Emerge ifplugd. that's precisely what my laptop does. -Original Message- From: "Marco Calviani"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2/17/06 2:29:46 AM To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Subject: [gentoo-user] net.eth0 and net.eth1 choice + net.eth1 timeout Hi list, i

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-17 Thread John Jolet
the problem is they both have valid points. in this,as in nearly all aspects of unix administration, there is not a single right answer. -Original Message- From: "Patrick Börjesson"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 2/17/06 4:15:08 PM To: "gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org" Subject: Re

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent

2006-02-18 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo kixtstart/jumpstart equivalent On 2/17/06 11:30 PM, "Ghislain Bourgeois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At my job, I designed a system we call Pullstart that we use to install Gentoo servers. I'm basically building what I call a "stage-4", which is simply a stage3

Re: [gentoo-user] Resolving hostnames with OpenVPN/TUN device?

2006-02-20 Thread John Jolet
On 2/20/06 6:04 PM, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey all. > > I've got OpenVPN installed, and it runs great. Only thing - I've noticed > between the Windows and Linux version - the Windows version seems to > auto-magically assign the proper nameserver addresses to the TUN device > once

[gentoo-user] [OT] OS X admin book

2006-02-20 Thread John King
Can anyone recommend a book for administering OS X tiger. I am looking for something that focuses on securing and configuring the OS rather than using iChat. Cheers, John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] mysql DB file

2006-02-21 Thread John Jolet
On 2/21/06 2:52 PM, "Nick Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > where is the actual mysql DB file stored? what it the name as well? > found info on the net that pointed to either /usr/local/mysql/data or > /usr/local/var neither of which contain a mysql dir, the latter doesnt > even exsist on gen

Re: [gentoo-user] chroot: cannot run command `bin/bash': Exec format error

2006-02-22 Thread John Jolet
On 2/22/06 5:03 PM, "Bo Andresen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have just purchased a new computer with a AMD Semphron 2800+ 64 bit > processor. I am installing it following the gentoo handbook of the amd64 > architecture - only I am using the x86 minimal livecd (2005-r1) and the > sta

Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?

2006-02-23 Thread John Jolet
> > There are too damn many myths about swap out there. Like this one: Always > configure twice as much swap as you have ram. Why? Why would I need more swap > if I increased my ram? You need at least a little bit of swap for peak memory > usage. Let's look at real numbers. Say, I am a bit low of

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-23 Thread John Jolet
Title: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question On 2/23/06 2:22 PM, "CR Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I’m having a problem with LVM.   I setup a volume group it had 5.91G in Free PE/Size now states 0/0 I have a logical volume inside that I tried to extend   It now states 10.91 GB f

[gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread John Fawcett
I'm new to gentoo and I wonder if someone can point me in the right direction to resovle the following kind of problem. I have run emerge mysql and get the following output: Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virt

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge error

2006-02-24 Thread John Fawcett
Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 23:56, John Fawcett wrote: >> Calculating dependencies /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to >> an ebuild. >> !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/perl-Storable-2.13) > > Update portage. > > -- >

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 24, 2006, at 9:35 PM, Zac Slade wrote: On Friday 24 February 2006 00:03, Alexander Skwar wrote: John Jolet wrote: Remember, the fs cannot be mounted when you extend it. That's wrong. Every FS can be extended online, even ext{2,3} with certain patches IIRC. WRONG!!! (or part

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo LVM Newbie Question

2006-02-24 Thread John Jolet
What an unenlighten troll. I have plenty of experience with AIX's volume manager. LVM2 can stand up to it any day. As a matter of fact Linux's LVM is about to completely surpass what is available in AIX. LVM2 can do cluster locking and management. You can use LVM2 with Multipathing to

[gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. John Blinka -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Saturday 25 February 2006 14:25, a tiny voice compelled John Blinka to write: Does anyone know what's wrong? None of my other machines does this. Thanks for your help. Have you tried a different browser? Try restarting cupsd # /etc/init.d/cupsd re

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-25 Thread John Blinka
ocalhost:631 to the browser. cupsd is the agent listening at port 631 and it's the source of the error. I'm guessing that when cupsd supplies the contents of /usr/share/cups/docs/index.html to the browser, the browser doesn't realize that it's receiving html and so renders it

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
0] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 0 I don't know enough about the workings of web browsers for this to tell me anything. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
dr fortran cups foomaticdb ppds gimpprint java samba win32codecs xprint" John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
David Helstroom wrote: Hi John, Just a quick thought - a thought quite possibly well and truly off track - could it be related to mime-types? Perhaps the CUPS web server has a problem recognising the HTML mime-type and thus is not sending them in the appropriate format (and with

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
CUPS + + ssl: Adds support for Secure Socket Layer connections The two machines are slightly different. The working machine's output is identical to what you reported above. The nonworking machine's output is identical except that the --cjk line is missing. John -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
files are different versions. The affected machine has a line indicating that it is version 1.21 and the unaffected machine has version 1.31. Portage, on the other hand, thinks that it has installed gentoo version 1.1.23-r7 of cups on each machine... John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] cups is broken

2006-02-26 Thread John Blinka
re up browser, point it at http://localhost:631. No problems configuring printers. Previous attempts to do steps 1) and 3) above, but not 2) resulted in an unchanged, obsolete, and incorrect version of mime.types. Thanks for everyone's suggestions in debugging this problem! John -- g

Re: [gentoo-user] SATA+GRUB not able to boot

2006-02-27 Thread John Jolet
On Feb 27, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Muthu wrote: Hai, I am using gentoo 2.6.15 kernel and grub 0.96. I am using software RAID1 for 3 devices (2 IDE(hda,hdb)+1 SATA(sda)). I am not able to boot through the SATA hardisk(ie. Just the plain cursor comes). When the grub loade

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
mount -t cifs -o user=reader%XXPASSWDXX //harvey/harvey-c /mnt/ harvey-c The directory /mnt/harvey-c has to be created ahead of time. The user reader needs to have an account on that windows machine. You'll need a windows user account username and password. If you don't use passwords for win

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace if the share is password protected, after the smbfs, add -o username=whatever,password=whatever only root will be able to do this. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Help with backup script

2006-03-02 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:58 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 14:37, John Jolet wrote: On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:23 AM, Paul wrote: On Thursday 02 Mar 2006 12:49, John Jolet wrote: snip mount -t smbfs //lkg5f.homenet.com/DISK 2 /mnt/someplace Thanks for all your help -- I now have it

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-05 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 5, 2006, at 11:55 PM, Ghaith Hachem wrote: hello, i was wondering if there's any good antivirus scanner outthere for linux i recently got infected on the windows part and the linux systems are accessible from there so i want to make sure the system is clean i've been missing some documen

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
box, in .ssh, create a file called config. In that I put: "Host * User john port xxx" this says for all hosts i ssh to, use port 26, and username john at the far end. you can replace the * with individual host names (as resolved via dns or hosts file) to have different usernames on

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:02 AM, Nagatoro wrote: John Jolet wrote: this says for all hosts i ssh to, use port 26, and username john at the [...] I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:06, John Jolet wrote: is that a question or statement? What do you mean? You said: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't t

Re: [gentoo-user] SSH + Keys

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:54 AM, A. Khattri wrote: On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, John Jolet wrote: I've had NO ssh portscans on my boxes since I moved them off of port 22. for security's sake, i won't tell you where I moved them to :) I dont think moving ssh from port 22 will stop p

Re: [gentoo-user] antivirus

2006-03-08 Thread John Jolet
In short if a user is getting infected a lot using Windows, switching to Linux is not curing the root cause. The basic problem is the user needs to understand what s/he is doing that's allowing malicious code to execute on their system and stop doing it. In the vast majority of Windows cas

Re: [gentoo-user] Printer Sharing with Samba

2006-03-09 Thread John Jolet
Question: how does one *make* a static IP? I thought that IP was assigned by DHCP? Isn't that the way that DHCP works? It leases an IP to a specific computer, which then gives up that lease when it's done using it. At that point, DHCP is free to re-lease that same IP to whomever else requests it,

Re: [gentoo-user] moving /usr

2006-03-10 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Eric Bliss wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 03:17, Josh Helmer wrote: On Friday 10 March 2006 18:05, Eric Bliss wrote: Before you do that... did you also edit /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/fstab? Just a thought, since we are talking about separate partitions to

Re: [gentoo-user] Is my postfix being used as a relay?

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose. So I would like to make it a good netizen. I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a neophyte with Postfix. Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem. with postfix, it will, by default ONLY accept mail for wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, JimD wrote: Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/? My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed. I was thinking of just tar.gzing my ~/ and then splittin

Re: [gentoo-user] 2006.0 minimal install howto

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, maxim wexler wrote: --- Jeremy Olexa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: maxim wexler wrote: Hello everybody, Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with this minimal install? I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs and gentoo.igz but the little on

Re: [gentoo-user] Multi-DVD backup

2006-03-17 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:29 PM, JimD wrote: John Jolet wrote: look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it all out for you

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 20, 2006, at 2:03 PM, maxim wexler wrote: Hi all, on a new install w/2.6.15 kernel on an i586(K6-2) box I get an ugly red message on boot: "Cannot default to dhcp, no dhcp module loaded, no config for eth0...net mount was not started" I use dialup, the ethernet card, a 3com59x will be

Re: [gentoo-user] turning off dhcp

2006-03-20 Thread John Jolet
OK, I edited the net file on *both* machines identically, like so: # For a static configuration, use something like this # (They all do exactly the same thing btw) config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2/24" ) config_eth0=( "192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" ) Now, the older box(K6) with the new install(2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] addusr (gentoo v. fedora)

2006-03-21 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 21, 2006, at 10:10 AM, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: Pardon, but I'm not clear on this command, apparently. Coming from fedora, I could just create a user, change the password, login, and everything would be set. However, gentoo doesn't create /home/user_name ? No problem, I created that direct

Re: [gentoo-user] addusr (gentoo v. fedora)

2006-03-21 Thread John Jolet
On Mar 21, 2006, at 3:42 PM, Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:32:42 + THUFIR HAWAT wrote: On 3/21/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. if you add the -m argument to useradd, it will create the directory and own it by the user being added. .. Ah, thanks a

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with libhistory.so.4 after update

2005-04-10 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 10 April 2005 10:48, Marten Karl wrote: > actual packages the starting message of apache says, that libphp5.so has a > problem to load libhistory.so.4. I had this problem a while back. re-emerge mod_php. pgpSJAaNYEl0M.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: [gentoo-user] Resolver not working

2005-04-23 Thread John Gallagher
tcpdump the traffic on the network to see if a request is even being made. Thanks, John > -Original Message- > From: Dominik Elsbroek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2005 3:59 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-use

[gentoo-user] Resolver not working

2005-04-22 Thread John Gallagher
For some reason the resolver is not working. I can ping the world by IP address but not name. I have a valid DNS server in resolve.conf and my other systems on the same network are working fine so it is not a firewall issue. Any Help would be appreciated. John livecd root # cat /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Openoffice: emerge --resume

2005-04-23 Thread John Myers
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 05:01, Kurt Guenther wrote: > Just checking if I'm missing something. I resumed a merge that ran > over night and it appears to start from the beginning again. As this > merge won't complete in the 10 hrs I give it, is there some other trick > I can play? FYI: emerge --

Re: [gentoo-user] rp-pppoe start on boot?

2005-04-27 Thread John Myers
On Wednesday 27 April 2005 21:15, Peet Grobler wrote: > Christoph Eckert wrote: > |>Which would be the correct way to do this with gentoo? > | > | rc-update add SERVICENAME default > | rc-update del SERVICENAME default > > Ah, I presume rc-update add net.ppp0 default would work... nope, rp-pppoe, n

Re: [gentoo-user] kde kwifimanager

2005-04-28 Thread John Myers
On Thursday 28 April 2005 22:35, LostSon wrote: > Hello > I seem to be having a problem with Kwifimanager when i try to run it i get > error while loading shared llibraries: libiw.so.28 > from my googling and looking around this lib is in wireless-tools i > recompiled this package and still no l

Re: [gentoo-user] Cups + Samba weird message

2005-04-29 Thread John Myers
On Friday 29 April 2005 06:11, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 4/29/05, Chris Ong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > After I emerge samba and cups.. i got this message > > > > * Caching service dependencies... > > * Services 'samba' and 'cupsd' have circular > > * dependency of type

Re: [gentoo-user] About runlevel's

2005-05-11 Thread John Myers
On Sunday 08 May 2005 09:50, Pere Gentoo wrote: > What about this way: > > I've seen it on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_create_a_run_level > > # mkdir /etc/runlevels/noxdm > > # rc-update add x noxdm(add all services from the default > runlevel except xdm) > > Modify /etc/inittab > > id:3:i

[gentoo-user] multiple kernels in grub

2005-08-11 Thread John Dangler
/grub.conf, only the genkernel is listed During startup, only the linux-2.6.12-gentoo-r6 kernel shows on the grub menu /usr/src does not contain the genkernel build.   I’m sure I did something wrong, but I don’t want to start over.  Any input is greatly appreciated.   John D  

[gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
else (0) or comment it (#) ?   Thanks for the input.   John D    

RE: [gentoo-user] conf.d/domainname

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Fernando~ Thanks for the reply.  Since I’m using DHCP, do I need to supply a DNSDOMAIN at all ?   John D     -Original Message- From: Fernando Meira [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 3:02 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] Install pcmcia-cs (during install)

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
The handbook instructs ‘USE=”-X” emerge pcmcia-cs’   emerge returns: ‘emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy “pcmcia-cs”   Anyone know why this is returned?   John D  

[gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
  John D

[gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
I setup my grub.conf so that I could see the splash screen on startup – but it doesn’t show.  Did I miss something? grub.conf has “… vga=0x318 video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] splash=silent”   was there something else I needed to do in order for this to work? John D  

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
TED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:28 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? the vga= line contradicts the video= line. Try dropping the vga= argument. On Sun, 2005-08-14 at 21:03 -0400, John Dangler wrote: > I setup my grub.conf so that I co

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
is it possible that this error is due to the fact that I named the partition /tmp ?     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 8:24 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
strange… I let the system boot, and then manually mounted /tmp like :   mount /dev/hda3 /tmp   it worked!   why won’t this mount at boot ???     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 9:49 PM To: gentoo-user

[RESOLVED]RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
DOH! – options in fstab… noaatime! corrected the spelling and all is well.     -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 10:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] 2005.1 basic install - restart

[gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
  I just tried to add fbspash to my grub.conf file and got a kernel panic on startup.  I rebooted with the livecd but don’t know how to get back into my gentoo environment.  chroot doesn’t work (can’t find /bin/bash).  Help…    

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] kernel panic - help!

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
Whew! I was able to recreate the initrd correctly by editing the grub lines and got it back up… I’ll need to re-read the fbsplash setup and try again…   -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2005 11:37 PM To: gentoo-user

[gentoo-user] splash and kerne panic

2005-08-14 Thread John Dangler
  Any input is appreciated.  Everything else in the basic install is running great!   John D

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-17 Thread John Dangler
Uwe~ Yes, please share! I'd be interested to see how this goes together John D -Original Message- From: Uwe Thiem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 4:22 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] where's the splash? On 16 August

[gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
o get back in. How do I compile a new kernel that I can add to the grub.conf with the alternate config ? Thanks for the input John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
be a list of default USE= flags. What I'd like to try and get to is, a difference between what's there and the 'total' list, and why would I add others to my own make.conf file? Thanks, as always, for the input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] updates

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
entoo-sources (2.6.12-r9). Why wouldn't kernel updates be included in a system emerge? Thanks, as always, for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
to work, I found that I should emerge both.  Any input, as always, is appreciated.   John D    

RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
That fails with this... !!! ERROR: net-wireless/ipw2100-1.1.2-r1 failed. !!! Function linux-mod-src-compile, Line 491, Exitcode 2 !!! Unable to make KSRC=/usr/src/linux KSRC_OUTPUT=/usr/src/linux IEEE80211_INC=/usr/include all. 3 John D -Original Message- From: Peter O'Connor [m

RE: [gentoo-user] updates

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
That makes some sense. (Gentoo is all about choices) So, basically, I emerge the new 'slot' and then re-compile the new kernel version according to the handbook, giving me both the existing kernel version and the new version... John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthi

RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
online docs) is to get cd tools and anti-virus (clam looks good) running. At the point that I think I have everything at this level, I intend to back it up (jic), and then install X, sound, and get a graphical environment running - at least that looks to be the most logical next steps... I really

RE: [gentoo-user] multiple kernel configs

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
Does the moving of the config files have any effect on the already compiled kernel? (I was under the impression that a .config _went with_ a specific build) or is that a throwback to too much time in a m$ environment? John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
Holly~ Maybe you can get this to work with this page... http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_fbsplash#Option_1:_Compiling_The_initramfs_Imag e_Directly_Into_The_Kernel There's a section somewhere in here that talks about that exact error. John D -Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [m

Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Jolet
u try that...my poor celeron took 16 hours to do that) and followed the documentation for kde on the gentoo site and it's all happy...except sound works in xmms, but not kde sytem notificationsnot sure why, but it's at the BOTTOM of my list. On Friday 19 August 2005 21:19, John Dan

RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
Would John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:31 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] updates with B

[RESOLVED] RE: [gentoo-user] USE flags

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
And how I hate to miss out on anything! :) Thanks, again Marco. John D -Original Message- From: Marco Matthies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 10:37 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] USE flags John Dangler wrote: > The list

[gentoo-user] wireless update [was update with B]

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
bug or do I really not need both of these on the system? the install is 2005.1 2.6.12-r6 on a dell i8600 Thanks as always for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] use flags (once more)

2005-08-19 Thread John Dangler
If I add a USE="whatever" to my make.conf file, does that get added to the flags already in the default profile, or does make.conf override what's in the defaults file? Thanks as always for any input. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
)]: Do you want to modify /etc/modules.d/alsa? hmm. any input is appreciated. John D -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
I've tried modifying the conf file for this by putting in snd-intel8x0, but the system isn't reading it for some reason. do I need to unmerge alsa-driver and start again ? Thanks for the assistance. John D -Original Message----- From: John Dangler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

RE: [gentoo-user] where's the splash?

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
myself! I put in a call to a friend of mine to see if he can help with the splash bits - so maybe there's hope yet. If you haven't got it solved, I'll post here when I get some more information. as to the mount problem, if it's not in fstab, what's in your mtab file? John

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
... [OK] yes, that's an underscore in the FATAL message (and, of course, after this, alsamixer fails) Any input is greatly appreciated. John D -Original Message- From: Christoph Eckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 3:31 PM To: gentoo

RE: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
My .config has - CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m John D -Original Message- From: Michael Kintzios [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:00 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help > From:: "John Dangler" <[EMAIL

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
So, is the solution to unmerge the alsa-driver ? Thanks for the response John D -Original Message- From: Christoph Eckert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:32 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa config > As I've under

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
As I said earlier, I think I goofed here. if I want to use the kernel compiled module, will I resolve it by unmerging the alsa-driver ? Thanks for the input. John D -Original Message- From: Nagatoro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:19 PM To: gentoo-user

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
s well), why would you rerun alsaconf after recompiling the kernel ? wouldn't that cause the same problem to occur twice? Thanks for the input. John D -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 4:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gento

RE: [gentoo-user] alsa config - help

2005-08-20 Thread John Dangler
Joe~ That's what my .config has now (CONFIG_SND_INTEL8X0=m) John Dangler GenoFit 800-505-4078 (Corporate) 386-767-3730 (Direct) www.genofit.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Joe Menola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2005 5:40 PM To: gentoo

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