Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 14:01 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > > ... > > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > > further? OK, I've randomly mounted partitions

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 14:44 +, Stroller wrote: > On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > ... > > Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up > > further? > > If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball cap. er... could you translate tha

[gentoo-user] KDE 3 and Kconvert

2010-02-19 Thread Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

2010-02-19 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 02:16:41PM +0100, Andrzej Stycze?? wrote: > On Thursday 18 of February 2010 15:11:16 Arttu V. wrote: > > > I'm guessing you're stuck with one or more of the regular USE-flag > > related circular deps problems: cups, ldap, sasl, kerberos, rle and > > what are there (and appa

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Hung Dang
On 02/19/10 04:43, Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote: > >> I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and >> after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I >> currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls e

Re: [gentoo-user] Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
> This may seem a little odd, but check your telly's remote for an overscan button or menu item. My TV doesn't let me controll overscan. I have a few modes to switch through but that doesn't effect overscan much or at all (zoom, panorama and 16:9 FS take more then the other modes but something is

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 19 Februar 2010, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk > to a newly created one. > > I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an > unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated > (with no bo

Re: [gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 02/19/2010 09:34 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk > to a newly created one. > > I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an > unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated > (with no boot u

[gentoo-user] When copying an os to new disk

2010-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm currently rsyncing an OS (new gentoo install) from one vmware disk to a newly created one. I know not to copy /proc but not sure about /dev. Looking at an unbooted OS disk with an install on it... I see /dev/ is populated (with no boot up), but I recall seeing things during boot like `populat

Re: [gentoo-user] Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Feb 2010, at 18:42, Sebastian Beßler wrote: ... the display on my TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it doesn't fit completely in. It is only a cm or so on all sides that overlap but it is really annoying. ... My 19" TV is connected via HDMI and runs at 1280x720 The same c

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
Dale writes: > Unless it has changed, it is "gentoo nox" at the prompt. Whatever > option you want to use, you have to put the gentoo first. At least it Yup, sorry for missing it in the options (F7). Iain B. nailed right off the bat.

[gentoo-user] Display on HDMI-connected TV to large

2010-02-19 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Hello, recently I changed my dual-head setting from fglrx and old zephod to xf86-video-ati, KMS and xrandr. Nearly all works great, since KDE 4.4 even that, but the display on my TFT-TV is a bit too large on all sides so that it doesn't fit completely in. It is only a cm or so on all sides that ov

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:38:06AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Dale
chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties: How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either of those ends in a gui. I always

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Jarry
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:38:06AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either of those ends in a gui. Usually I'm u

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 05:38:06AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? > > (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) > > There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either > of those ends in a gui. Heh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:09:03 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Friday 19 February 2010 16:47:09 walt wrote: >> On 02/19/2010 05:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: >> >dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) >> > >> > (java6?>=virtual/jdk-1.6) ... >> > >> > My '

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk (SOLVED)

2010-02-19 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:44:21 -0500 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When I run > emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update > --with-bdeps=y world > > I get (after a DeprecationWarning about portage.dep.dep_getkey() that I > believe I can ignore) > > Total: 0 packages, Siz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 19 February 2010 16:47:09 walt wrote: > On 02/19/2010 05:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: > >dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) > > > > (java6?>=virtual/jdk-1.6) ... > > > > My 'make.conf' has 'java', but not 'java6', > > I'm thinking that !jav

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread walt
On 02/19/2010 05:44 AM, Philip Webb wrote: dev-db/hsqldb-1.8.0.10 (!java6? =virtual/jdk-1.5*) (java6?>=virtual/jdk-1.6) ... My 'make.conf' has 'java', but not 'java6', I'm thinking that !java6 notation means if you *don't* have the java6 useflag enabled (but do wa

Re: [gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Feb 2010, at 12:15, Iain Buchanan wrote: ... Can I randomly mount partitions read-only or will this screw things up further? If this is unsafe I will have ketchup & mustard on my baseball cap. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread Philip Webb
100218 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When I run > emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update > --with-bdeps=y world > I get ... > !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: > virtual/jdk:1.5 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with installation kde-meta, gnome

2010-02-19 Thread Andrzej Styczeń
On Thursday 18 of February 2010 15:11:16 Arttu V. wrote: > I'm guessing you're stuck with one or more of the regular USE-flag > related circular deps problems: cups, ldap, sasl, kerberos, rle and > what are there (and apparently now I have to add qt4 into the mix as > well). Do you happen to have

Re: [gentoo-user] zsh and sudo

2010-02-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 19 Feb, daid kahl wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed zsh recently and was working on making the switch > over from bash for my daily user, provided I can get a few things > worked out. > > The biggest problem that I can't find useful results googling is zsh > interaction with sudo. > > I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Sansa Clip+

2010-02-19 Thread Damian
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:15 AM, sean wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> Do you do yet the obvious first step, which is to plug in it and see what >> happens? >> >> If so, what happened? >> If not, do so, then post what happened. >> >> > > That I had tried. > The device is not seen. That's strang

[gentoo-user] recovering RAID from an old server

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm trying to recover some data from and old Snap Server 4200 (c2003) belonging to a local charity. It has 4 80Gb IDE drives, and runs some sort of Linux kernel with their (snap's) own applications on top. It won't boot to the Snap OS (Guardian OS 3.1.079 - quite an old one, major versio

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 05:38 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: > How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? ... I think it's something to do with "nox" but I'm not sure exactly how. Either that or start using the minimal boot CD's - only about 100MB and no X :) -- Iain Buchanan

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:24 +, Stroller wrote: > I would try to help, but your text is too small. now, now, be nice ;) > This is why you should post in plain-text format. he did, you're obviously favouring the html part. James: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_NextPart

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 00:49 -0500, James Homuth wrote: > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and > after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I > currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't > exist. But, booting to an install

[gentoo-user] How to get text only console on livecd install

2010-02-19 Thread Harry Putnam
How can I force a text only console when installing from live cd? (This is the most recent livecd for x86 on www.gentoo.org) There appears only gentoo or gentoo-nofb...as boot choices and either of those ends in a gui. I always find it takes me 10 minutes to find a terminal once the gui comes up

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with virtual/jdk

2010-02-19 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When I run > emerge --ignore-default-opts --pretend --deep --tree --verbose --update > --with-bdeps=y world > > !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: > > virtual/jdk:1.5 > > !!! All ebui

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Alex Schuster
James Homuth writes: > I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after > reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently > have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. > But, booting to an install CD I burned for diagnostic purpo

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/19/2010 10:07 AM, James Homuth wrote: *From:* Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] *Sent:* February 19, 2010 1:55 AM *To:* gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org *Subject:* Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit

Re: [gentoo-user] binary amd64 multilib build of gcc 4.3.4 wanted

2010-02-19 Thread William Kenworthy
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +0100, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem wrote: > PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/default-linux/amd64/"; Brilliant! Thanks, BillK -- William Kenworthy Home in Perth!

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 Feb 2010, at 05:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or two ago, and after reboot, I lost the ability to do anything with /dev/hda*. I currently have 0 swap space, and according to stat, ls etc, they don't exist. But, booting to an install CD I bu

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday 19 February 2010 09:07:59 James Homuth wrote: > _ > > From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] > Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... > > > On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homu

RE: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist...

2010-02-19 Thread James Homuth
_ From: Hung Dang [mailto:hungp...@gmail.com] Sent: February 19, 2010 1:55 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can't see /dev/hda1,2,3 but I know they exist... On 02/18/10 22:49, James Homuth wrote: I performed a bit of an update on my laptop a day or tw