Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-11-01 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:50:54PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Someone here pointed out to me that I won't have enough free temporary > >space on disk to compile openoffice in gentoo anyway. > > > > > I must have missed that post, so, I'm almost afraid to ask...

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone here pointed out to me that I won't have enough free temporary space on disk to compile openoffice in gentoo anyway. I must have missed that post, so, I'm almost afraid to ask... How much temp disk space does openoffice.org need to compile? -- Marc Shapir

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> Or should I do something radical to get current software, such as > >>> installing gentoo on the former etch partition? > >> ack! bite your tongue! ;-0 > > > > No... that hurts. > > > >

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:26:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:18:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:03:58AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:52:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:26:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > well, that's all good news. sounds like lilo got borked there and that > was your problem. Looks like it. The problem on top of the stack, anyway. THe X problem was surely unrelated, but may have > come from the same upg

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:03:58AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:52:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > But only after you have finished > > > investigating what is causing the badness in the current install. > > > > If I knew how to do this (besides

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:18:40AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:03:58AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:52:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > But only after you have finished > > > > investigating what is causing t

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:52:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > But only after you have finished > > investigating what is causing the badness in the current install. > > If I knew how to do this (besides a few variations on rebooting and > fsck) I wouldn't be considering a reinstall.

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-25 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 04:49:05PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:03:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > >> what is your boot manager? > > > > > > > > l

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:03:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> what is your boot manager? > > > > > > lilo > > > > > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > > > > > Not as fa

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> what is your boot manager? > > > > lilo > > > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > > > Not as far as I know. But I'll try rerunning lilo from the sarge > > system. Both etch and sar

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> what is your boot manager? > > lilo > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > Not as far as I know. But I'll try rerunning lilo from the sarge > system. Both etch and sarge have compatible lilo.conf files. certainly wouldn't hurt... > >> or maybe >> you've g

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:46:36PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 12:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > RAMDISK: Conplressed image found at block 0 > > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /calss/input/input0 > > invalid argument format (err=1) > > VFS: Cannot open root dev

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:46:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I run a dual-boot Debian system -- one partition is sarge; the other is > > etch. The idea was that users would have a stable platform available if > > they wished, for mission-critical work, bu

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-23 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 12:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > RAMDISK: Conplressed image found at block 0 > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /calss/input/input0 > invalid argument format (err=1) > VFS: Cannot open root device "304" or unknown-block(3, 4) > Pleas append a correct "root=" boot

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I run a dual-boot Debian system -- one partition is sarge; the other is > etch. The idea was that users would have a stable platform available if > they wished, for mission-critical work, but have access to (relatively) > recent software for the proce of a reboot. >

The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-23 Thread hendrik
I run a dual-boot Debian system -- one partition is sarge; the other is etch. The idea was that users would have a stable platform available if they wished, for mission-critical work, but have access to (relatively) recent software for the proce of a reboot. This etch had been ailing for quite