Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I > don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I tend > to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for > everything else. What if you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Thufir: > On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I > > don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I > > tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Montag, 9. Juli 2007 schrieb ext Neil Bothwick: > Hello Allan Gottlieb, > > > > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > > > LVM partition for everything else. > > > > Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a > > motivation was to be able to mo

[gentoo-user] Re: about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Thufir
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > [*] On machines already set up with a separate /boot. On new installs I > don't bother with a separate /boot, there's no real advantage, so I tend > to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an LVM partition for > everything else. Would

[gentoo-user] Re: gentoo filesystems

2007-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:33:27 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Allan Gottlieb, > >> > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an >> > LVM partition for everything else. >> >> Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a >> motivat

Re: gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
Hello Allan Gottlieb, > > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > > LVM partition for everything else. > > Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but thought that a > motivation was to be able to move space from one partition to another. One physical partiti

gentoo filesystems (was: [gentoo-user] about grub)

2007-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
[Sorry for the previous post just quoting neil--finger slip] At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On new installs I tend to stick with / (including /boot) swap and an > LVM partition for everything else. Just one partition? I have never used lvm, but tho

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 08 Jul 2007 16:25:06 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > >> > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every >> > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. >> >> There's nothing wr

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-08 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: > Thanks Alex, I was trying your script, but just like Etaoin's script it > does not go beyond level 1 in the directory. All the subdirectories and > files within them stay in Capital Case. > > How can I change it to recursively look into the directory? That's strange. I tried that

Re: [gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On Sunday 08 July 2007 22:57, Clara García wrote: > Hello, I have a Huawei USB E220 modem wich works fine almost all the time. > But sometimes when I connect, it seems to work OK (led turns continous blue > and wvdial shows exactly the same as when the modem connects well, no > errors) but there is

[gentoo-user] USB modem locks weirdly

2007-07-08 Thread Clara García
Hello, I have a Huawei USB E220 modem wich works fine almost all the time. But sometimes when I connect, it seems to work OK (led turns continous blue and wvdial shows exactly the same as when the modem connects well, no errors) but there is no connection to the internet, I can't use anything re

Re: [gentoo-user] Change the case of file names

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On Monday 02 July 2007 22:47, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mich writes: > > I backed up my wife's WinXP fs using K3B and I used default settings > > which unfortunately converted all file names to CAPITALS and shortened > > them to 8 characters maximum, just like DOS would do. Is there a clever > > way

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Thufir
On 7/8/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] The main camps we seem to be divided into are: 1. we don't want unskilled users and: 2. we do want unskilled users [...] Yes, that's the situation. I've used gentoo before, and went back to fedora, and am considering coming back. I've never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-08 Thread Thufir
On 7/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] You're welcome. How did you get the second NIC recognised? By removing the module and then installing again? Nope. Simply entering those command got things working. I copied pasted to show how the network started off unavailable then, after e

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On 7/8/07, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus > less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to > hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and > spending time dancing around the lesser

Re: [gentoo-user] Static addresses and timeouts

2007-07-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:32:04 +0200 Eduard Bachmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Dan Farrell: > > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:08:11 +0200 > > > > Eduard Bachmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I want to run a webserver on my PC. Since I am using a NAT-router > > > for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Grant
The problem is if you focus on usability for newbies, you'll focus less on features and customization, or you'll have to find a way to hide this customizability because customization confuses newbies, and spending time dancing around the lesser populace is time wasted on doing practical stuff ( Wh

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Grant
If gentoo became an *easy* distro like sickbayon or ubuntu.. I would stop using it. Seriously.. user friendly distros is not what I am looking for.. I am looking for a distro to have one fun and learn. >>> I second this sentiment. Since starting to use Gentoo in 2004, all >>> othe

Re: [gentoo-user] Static addresses and timeouts

2007-07-08 Thread Eduard Bachmakov
Am Sonntag, 8. Juli 2007 schrieb Dan Farrell: > On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:08:11 +0200 > > Eduard Bachmakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to run a webserver on my PC. Since I am using a NAT-router for > > internet connection I need the server to have the same ip everytime. > > That's why I tried

Re: [gentoo-user] QT dir:

2007-07-08 Thread Alessandro del Gallo
Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Alessandro del Gallo wrote: Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: when you su to portage and do an export, is QTDIR set too? elwood ~ # su - porta

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:35:05 +0100 Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/07/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mick gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > The wiki says not to use the FUSE module in the kernel, but to > > > emerge it as a separate module. I don't think it says anything > > > ab

Re: [gentoo-user] portage-2.1.3_rc6 doesn't compile

2007-07-08 Thread Dan Farrell
> I did 'emerge sys-kernel/linux-headers'. It says it would be advised > that you re-merge your system libc. > Portage now builds - should I rebuild the libc nevertheless? In my experience it's best to do exactly what portage says. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

2007-07-08 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:28:23 -0400 Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple of > issues. I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if they're > actually outside the Kmail program. > You do use IMAP right? POP would downlo

[gentoo-user] Re: QT4 programming setup

2007-07-08 Thread James
Kent Fredric gmail.com> writes: > qt4 is in a different structure to qt3, > for the actual programming part, i do believe its all set up for you. > qmake -project > qmake > make > thats all i had to do to build my first QT app :) Hello Kent, OK, This looks easy... I'll give it a whirl and

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 09:03:47 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote: > > It's not an error really. You are not meant to mount /boot every > > time you boot - only when you want to change anything in it. > > There's nothing wrong with having it mounted, only generally there's no > reason to access it after bo

Re: [gentoo-user] A Good player for streaming audio

2007-07-08 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Samstag, den 07.07.2007, 16:00 -0400 schrieb Henk Boom: > On 06/07/07, Marc Joliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Of course, it doesn't exactly integrate with KDE, and 3 windows > > (audacious, streamtuner, and an xterm for streamripper) are a tad > > irritating, but hey, that's what virtual des

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On 06/07/07, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mick gmail.com> writes: > The wiki says not to use the FUSE module in the kernel, but to emerge it as a > separate module. I don't think it says anything about not including the > normal ntfs driver (I'm sure I have it built in mine). I do not h

Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions

2007-07-08 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:55, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > > messages. > > yes it does. > > > I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the > > archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow m

Re: [gentoo-user] Camcorder capture

2007-07-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:10:22 -0500, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > I'd like some help with comcorder capture in my Gentoo. > > I already have my firewire working, but I need some soft (graphic, > > please), with the tools to do it. > > I use dvgrab. It's not graphical, but it doesn't need to be. B

Re: [gentoo-user] Camcorder capture

2007-07-08 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Sun, 2007-07-08 at 09:53 -0300, Marco Antônio da Veiga wrote: > I'd like some help with comcorder capture in my Gentoo. > I already have my firewire working, but I need some soft (graphic, > please), with the tools to do it. I use dvgrab. It's not graphical, but it doesn't need to be. -- Albe

[gentoo-user] Static addresses and timeouts

2007-07-08 Thread Eduard Bachmakov
I want to run a webserver on my PC. Since I am using a NAT-router for internet connection I need the server to have the same ip everytime. That's why I tried to use static routes. The problem is that I get timeouts for about 25-75% of the time. DHCP works without any problems (but I get differe

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-08 Thread Mick
On Sunday 08 July 2007 09:32, Thufir wrote: > I'm on the live cd, the IP address resolved :) > > livecd ~ # dhcpcd eth0 up > Error, timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response > livecd ~ # > livecd ~ # dhcpcd eth1 up > livecd ~ # > livecd ~ # ping 192.168.2.1 > PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1

[gentoo-user] Camcorder capture

2007-07-08 Thread Marco Antônio da Veiga
Hi everyone, I'd like some help with comcorder capture in my Gentoo. I already have my firewire working, but I need some soft (graphic, please), with the tools to do it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread Kent Fredric
On 7/8/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 12:57, sain yan wrote: > >Because you didn`t mount /boot? > > Yes! I find the erro in /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda7/boot ext3*noauto,*notime,noexec 0 0 It's not an error really. You are not meant to

Re: [gentoo-user] about grub

2007-07-08 Thread sain yan
only generally there's no reason to access it after boot yes!! == I'm sorry for my poor english!!!

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-08 Thread Martin S
2007/7/7, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 16:16:26 +0200, Martin S wrote: > What was missed, was - if the Live CD is so important, why not just > nick it from Sabayon where it actually "works". As does the 2007.0 live CD, at least it did for me, which the previous efforts

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: live cd, ip fail

2007-07-08 Thread Thufir
I'm on the live cd, the IP address resolved :) livecd ~ # livecd ~ # cat /etc/gentoo-release Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 livecd ~ # livecd ~ # whoami root livecd ~ # livecd ~ # ping 192.168.2.1 connect: Network is unreachable livecd ~ # livecd ~ # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet