Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows

2013-09-10 Thread 东方巽雷
I have solved my problem by using uefi shell.My pc bios can load uefi shell from usb fat32 partition. Thank you. 2013/9/11 Wang Xuerui > 2013/9/11 Yuri K. Shatroff : > > Well, actually it *is* possible using "hybrid" MBR+GPT partitioning. > > > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows

2013-09-10 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/9/11 Yuri K. Shatroff : > Well, actually it *is* possible using "hybrid" MBR+GPT partitioning. > > http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/hybrid.html > > Also google for 'hybrid mbr'. > > I am using this setup for multibooting several OS incl. Win 7 without > problems for a couple of years. I almost

Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

2013-09-10 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Sep 10 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: >>> > >>> > No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of >>> > the program that created the o

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
On 09/11/13 00:44, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote: I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2013 23:50, Joseph wrote: > I forgot to mention. > My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out > if the router is the problem with slow connection. > as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about > 15Mbps up to 25Mbps > upload speed is 1.5M

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
On 09/10/13 22:48, Mick wrote: On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 22:38:35 Joseph wrote: My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one of

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
On 09/10/13 21:11, Albert wrote: Al 10/09/2013 19:47, En/na Joseph ha escrit: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine

[gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
On 09/11/13 00:01, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Do you have userpriv set in FEATURES? > > That makes emerge run as portage which cannot read /root. Here is the value of FEATURES, based on the output of emerge --info: FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-lock

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 22:38:35 Joseph wrote: > My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect > one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP > (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one > of my box to the same mac ad

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
I forgot to mention. My router is an old 486-box running freesco. So I'm trying to find out if the router is the problem with slow connection. as my download speed on cable is only 3.7Mbps and it should be about 15Mbps up to 25Mbps upload speed is 1.5Mbps -- Joseph On 09/10/13 23:10, Alan McKi

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Joseph
My connection to my provider is kind of slow, so they suggested I connect one of the box directly to the cable modem. Since I have a dynamic IP (that hardly ever changes), I'll disconnect the router and configure one of my box to the same mac address has router eth0 has and connect it to the mod

Re: [gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2013 22:11, Timur Aydin wrote: > Today I had quite a bit of issues while creating a local overlay to > modify samba. Got through all of them, but there were the following > issues which I wanted to bring up, because I am not sure whether I have > done anything wrong: > > - I had created t

Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

2013-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I'm curious as to why you do that, I can't see any benefit at all. >> > >> > The "var" filesystem is an LV and is only useful if it is mounted at >> > /var where packages expect it to be. Why add the extra complexity of >> > mounting it somewhere els

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/09/2013 19:47, Joseph wrote: > Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? > > I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my > static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac > address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router. >

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-10 Thread felix
I have an old (6-7 years?) Mac laptop which I mostly use for watching streaming Netflix movies, and ssh into work computers of one sort or another. It has one dead key (up arrow), another which is flaky, the screen brightness sometimes flickers, but it generally still works, mostly. My home co

[gentoo-user] creating overlay to modify net-fs/samba-3.6.18

2013-09-10 Thread Timur Aydin
Today I had quite a bit of issues while creating a local overlay to modify samba. Got through all of them, but there were the following issues which I wanted to bring up, because I am not sure whether I have done anything wrong: - I had created the overlay under "/root/overlay", but this is causin

Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows

2013-09-10 Thread Yuri K. Shatroff
On 10.09.2013 19:14, Wang Xuerui wrote: 2013/9/10 东方巽雷 : I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of hard disk ,add "bios_grub" flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or win8 from usb,it al

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 19:05:59 jo...@antarean.org wrote: > I don't have access to a Gentoo box atm. But there is an option in > /etc/conf.d/net for this. Check the net.example file. mac_eth0="00:11:22:33:44:55" You will also need to set up PPPoE with username and password for authenticating on

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 16:28:55 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?: > On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 16:48:24 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > > Try [adding] -userpriv to your FEATURES (as in > > FEATURES="-userpriv") in make.conf > > Nope. Didn't help. > > I se

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Albert
Al 10/09/2013 19:47, En/na Joseph ha escrit: Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of my machine to the same MAC as on my router.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 03:13:50PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: > > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Is it working for you, Dale? :-) > > So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, > > for quite a while. Are you saying something i

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Joseph wrote: > Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? > > I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my static > IP will change; so to retain static IP I want to spoof mac address on one of > my machine to the same MAC as on m

Re: [gentoo-user] spoof mac address

2013-09-10 Thread joost
I don't have access to a Gentoo box atm. But there is an option in /etc/conf.d/net for this. Check the net.example file. -- Joost Joseph wrote: >Does anybody know how to spoof mac address on Gentoo? > >I want to connect a machine directly to the modem but if I do so my >static IP will change; s

Re: [gentoo-user] why does revdep-rebuild object to mounting /var on /mnt/var ?

2013-09-10 Thread gottlieb
On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/09/2013 00:26, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> On Mon, Sep 09 2013, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 1:51 PM, wrote: In fstab I have /dev/vg/var /mnt/var ext4 defaults 0 2 I also have lrwxrwxrwx 1 r

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 16:48:24 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > Try [adding] -userpriv to your FEATURES (as in FEATURES="-userpriv") in > make.conf Nope. Didn't help. I see mention of "usersync" in the bug conversation, but I don't know what that means. I'll just wait for the fixed version, I

Re: [gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows

2013-09-10 Thread Wang Xuerui
2013/9/10 东方巽雷 : > I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of > hard disk ,add "bios_grub" flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and > archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or > win8 from usb,it always complain the gpt partition and

[gentoo-user] bios+gpt+grub2 boot windows

2013-09-10 Thread 东方巽雷
I format my hard disk to gpt.Then create a 1M partition at the header of hard disk ,add "bios_grub" flag.I can install and boot gentoo,debain and archlinux,but have no idea how to boot windows7 and 8.When I boot win7 or win8 from usb,it always complain the gpt partition and cannot install.What shou

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 10 Sep 2013 07:18:11 Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Is it working for you, Dale? :-) > So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, > for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for > me?? O_O Seriously?? This is a joke right??

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is it working for you, Dale? :-) [IP-] [ ] sys-apps/portage-2.2.1:0 Sun Aug 25 05:27:12 2013 >>> sys-apps/portage-2.2.1 So far, so good. I been using unstable, except for the version, for quite a while. Are you saying something is broke and it works for me?? O_

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Markos Chandras
On 10 September 2013 10:13, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday 09 Sep 2013 09:44:01 Tanstaafl wrote: >> Wow... just noticed an update is available which, for me, means it has >> been stabilized (at least on amd64)... > > --->8 > >> Now to wait a few days to see if there is any breakage to report (n

Re: [gentoo-user] FlashPlayer crashes in FireFox

2013-09-10 Thread Daniel Troeder
Am 09.09.2013 11:45, schrieb Dan Johansson: > As of lately (I can not really remember since when) FlashPlayer has > stopped working in FireFox. > > I'm running an "stable" AMD64 system with FireFox > (www-client/firefox-17.0.8), FlasPlayer > (www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.2.202.297) and NS-Plugin-Wra

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 2.2.1 stabilized?

2013-09-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 09 Sep 2013 09:44:01 Tanstaafl wrote: > Wow... just noticed an update is available which, for me, means it has > been stabilized (at least on amd64)... --->8 > Now to wait a few days to see if there is any breakage to report (not > worried about it really, though, since it has actually