I still think you need to partition the new drive first, then
dd the individual partitions.
Addresses within partitions are normally handled as sector offsets, but
booting and locating the start/extent of partitions don't always.
The fdisk format on PCs is ancient and predates SCSI (and IDE drive
I do this quite frequently - except that in most cases I am
replacing an old drive with a new larger driver, but want
the existing partitions copied accross identically as if
nothing has changed. To complicate matters, I often have
more that one operating system installed on the disk.
The basic ap
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 11:59:43AM -0500, Chris Fairles wrote:
> Changed my symlink to point to 2.6.12-gentoo-r10, compiling ndiswrapper
> 1.5 is using running kernel 2.6.13
..
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.13-gentoo-r3'
> Building modules, stage 2.
> MODPOST
Oops - seems l
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:35:42PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
> Norberto Bensa schreef:
> > Peter Ruskin wrote:
> >
> >> ebegin "Checking that /usr/src/linux is linked to booted kernel..."
> >> if [ "/usr/src/linux-$(uname -r)" != "$(ls -l /usr/src/linux|cut
> >> -f2 -d\>|cut -f2,3,4 -d' ')" ]
Something which I havn't found any explicit elaboration of in the
documentation...
The convention in the Linux/gentoo filesystem seems to be to have a unique
directory for each installed kernel in /usr/src, with a symbolic link to
the 'current' kernel directory named /usr/src/linux..
The question
I've had another look at the problem, and at last can report
a bit of success - at least I think I have bracketed the problem...
I started by enabling the USB debug messages in the kernel
(CONFIG_USB_DEBUG) to see if that shed any light on what was
happening, but it just produced a lot of stuff l
Hi James,
Thanks for going to all the trouble of testing out the phone
operation on your SuSE machine. I havn't had any breakthrough
yet, but your help has given me the confidence to persevere..
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:40:11AM -0500, James Hiscock wrote:
> > I've just tried to use moto4lin wit
Sorry about the delayed reply - I have been away for a couple
of days.
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 05:25:12PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote:
> > and the fact that you get a /dev/ttyACM0 and I get a /dev/usb/acm/0.
> > I wonder if that indicates a slight USB driver change between our
> > two kernels?
>
>
Thanks James and Qian,
But doesn't this conflict with the advice given in kernel-upgrade.xml, which
says:
The only situation where this is appropriate is when upgrading from one Gentoo
kernel revision to another. For example, the changes made between
gentoo-sources-2.6.9-r1 and gentoo-sources-2
On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 12:45:49AM +0200, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:43:07 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level
> > code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I h
chosen at boot time.
Thanks,
DigbyT
P.S. is there an easy way to confirm which kernel source (gentoo/vanilla)
was originally installed?
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 02:31:30PM -0500, John Jolet wrote:
> On Thursday 27 October 2005 14:25, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > Thanks, but I am ok on con
P.S. See my other posts regarding trying to get USB to work for
my mobile for the inspiration behind wanting to update the kernel.
I think if you get to the stage of having to debug kernel code, it
is always worth at least trying the latest kernel first.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at
kernel release tarball downloadable somewhere? Or is there
some way to ask emerge to do this?
Regards,
DigbyT
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 08:06:35PM +0100, Qian Qiao wrote:
> On 10/27/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping
The portage system seems pretty effective in keeping the user level
code up to date on a gentoo system - but now that I have had my
system installed for 6-7 months it has occured to me that my
kernel is no longer current, and I havn't found anything in the
handbook suggesting how this should be app
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:31:37AM -0400, James Hiscock wrote:
>
> Did you specify the correct device for moto4lin? Should be
> /dev/ttyACM0. Also, check the permissions on /dev/ttyACM0 -- by
> default, they're too restrictive.
It defaults to /dev/usb/acm/0 which seems to be correct for me. At le
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 04:43:23PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote:
> > Do you have it working?
>
> Yes.
That is encouraging. Which model phone to you have it working
with?
> > And if so, which kernel are you using?
>
> gentoo-sources-2.6.13-r3 (or some other -r? value - can't recall offhand)
Ok, h
ing, or is there some configuration that I need
to do?
Regards,
DigbyT
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 07:58:34PM -0400, James Hiscock wrote:
> On 10/23/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380
> > mobile
I've been looking at the 'moto4lin' ebuild on my 2.6.10-gentoo-r6
system, and it seems to be looking for a file '/dev/usb/acm/0'
which does not seem to exist on my system:
1.penemunde:mobile/moto4lin-0.3/moto_ui> ls -lR /dev/usb
/dev/usb:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 hid
I would strongly recomend putting the home directory on its own
partition. It then doesn't matter too much where you decide to mount
it, although some broken applications may assume the Linux convention
of using /home, so it is probably safest to preserve this and use a
sym link if you want to be a
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 06:08:05PM +0100, Jonathan Wright wrote:
>
> That's fine for outgoing mail, but unless an MX record exists for the
> internal server on a domain/subdomain, it's difficult to 'direct'
> traffic from the outside in.
>
> The only other way I can think off is to test the ser
It is easy enough to set it up and test it in parallel with your
current setup. Nothing important should be directed there till you
advertise it..
I have been running a mail server on my home system ever since I got
my DSL connection at home. It is where I normally direct mailing
list traffic and
In general, I think it is pretty straight forward to go from PDF
to postscript, and PDF seems easier to access for Windows users,
so if you can store a PDF file as your displayable format then
I don't think you need to also store the postscipt.
There are occasions, however, when PDF output isn't a
Hi,
My post from yesterday seems to have disappeared into the ether, so
I'll try again - appologies if this is eventually repeated...
I would like to connect a mobile phone (Motorolo C380) with USB connector
to my gentoo system so as to give me both mobile Internet access and
also the ability to
For remote access over the public Internet I usually use ssh. With the
'-X' option it gives you secure encrypted port forwarding to your
local X server, which appart from a speed hit is functionally pretty
close to having a directly connected X terminal.
Of course if you are trying to connect from
Looking for anyone that can offer advice on connecting a Motorola C380
mobile phone to my gentoo Linux system via the USB interface.
When I connect the phone, I see the following in /var/log/messages:
usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-2: device descriptor read
othwick wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 10:05:16 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> > Gentoo doesn't seem to have defined a standard way of maintaining
> > different runlevels,
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=4
>
> runlevels
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 04:57:28PM +1200, Glenn Enright wrote:
> > I logged in via ssh from another system and ran 'telinit 3' to try to
> > shutdown the X server. This had no effect - 'who -r' continued to
> > report runlevel 5.
>
> The default gentoo runlevel is 3. Unless youve changed that then
> Please, be more specific about the place where this happens. Do you
> click shutdown from Gnome or KDE? Do you run shutdown -h now from from
> console and so on.
The last time this happened was after an unsuccessful attempt to switch
the console from X to a text console with the CTL-ALT-F1 seque
Anyone experienced any problems with their gentoo system refusing
to shutdown..??
My system, running on a Tyan motherboard with twin PIII processors
and GeForce4 Ti 4200 display, seems to be unstoppable...
I suspect it is the X server which is refusing to stop, but I am
not sure what is getting i
achieves, assuming I
can get it to work..
Regards,
DigbyT
On Sat, Jun 11, 2005 at 07:42:02AM +0200, Francesco Talamona wrote:
> On Saturday 11 June 2005 04:46, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> > When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I
> > get several warning such
When I emerge netkit-rsh (because I want to share a tape via rmt) I get
several warning such as:
QA Notice: /usr/bin/rlogin is setXid, dynamically linked and using lazy
bindings.
This combination is generally discouraged. Try: CFLAGS='-Wl,-z,now' emerge
netkit-rsh
Which seems pretty reasonable
Skype knows nothing about artsd or esd. The reason you see
that message is that the execution of skype is done by
a shell script which checks for the existence of one of
these daemons, and if found, fools skype into using it
via some clever (but not original) subterfuge.
I assume the wrapper was i
Hi,
I guess that means that you either have smaller disks than me, or a
larger tape drive...
But assuming you do regular backups, how do you figure out which
parts of the filesystem need to be scanned if the static stuff isn't
confined to a separate filesystem?
What do you use for your tape back
I agree that trying to size partitions optimally is an annoying
chore, but I gather LVM should help with that problem - though I
havn't tried it yet.
However I disagree about the drive wear argument. Sensible partitioning
can be used to reduce seek time by keeping related data together, and
more i
e separate /boot/), would
>like to add the possibility to have encrypted root-partition ("/").
>Could also help for a easier rescue usage.
>Not recommended but sometimes is used.
>HTH. Rumen
On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 07:44:40AM +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> Digby Tarvin
Following on from the recent discussions on grub and booting,
is there a good reason for having a separate partition for /boot,
other than perhaps to overcome BIOS addressing limitations for
people with very large root partitions??
The reason I ask is that I am quite particular about my partitioni
suggestions?
Regards,
DigbyT
On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 03:18:14PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Here are what I think are the relevent lines from dmesg. Can anyone
> diagnose what they mean, or suggest something I should try? I have
> tried 'pci=routeirq' and it made no difference..
A. GENKERNEL
Well, I have now built a genkernal system to see if that helped, and
it didn't seem to. It got noticably less far than my manually configured
kernel, in that it did not recognise any PCMCIA slots at all :-(
It also produced a suspicious error message during boot:
/sbin/rc: lin
I would quite like to try something like that as a neat way of bootstrapping
a new install.
Can you tell me which pcmcia-usb2 adapter you are using? The one that
I have tried (an SDK adapter) didn't seem to work with Linux, and I
have had trouble finding anyone who can confirm a working card.
Tha
Hi Jerry,
So your /proc/bus/pccard is also missing the two digit files aka:
% ls -l /proc/bus/pccard
total 0
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2 13:13 00
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2 13:13 01
dr-xr-xr-x2 root root0 Jun 2 1
Thanks Richard,
The yenta tip certainly seems to have helped. The system now seems
to recognise the existance of the bridge, and when I insert the 3Com
card, it recognises both the network interface and the serial port
from the modem.
There are still no '00' etc files in the /proc/bus/pccard dire
Hello again Richard,
Well, the plot thickens...
I found that the header file with the ToPIC97 information is
/usr/src/linux/drivers/pcmcia/topic.h
on both SuSE and gentoo, and on my SuSE system that was indeed
included by the i82365 driver as I has surmised
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 07:43:16PM +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
>
> Grepping the 2.6 sources for "ToPIC97" indicates you need the "yenta"
> driver. It is probably best to compile that into your kernel, not as a
> module.
Hi Richard,
That surprises me, because in the configuration
bus opti
Further to my earlier post...
I forgot to mention - one obvious thing to ask would be 'was the card
recognised by the installation CD or when usign genkernel?'
The answer is - I don't know, because
This notebook has no CD-Rom, and the only way to connect one would be
via PCMCIA or USB, and I
Hi Nick and Richard,
Thanks for both of your comments...
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 02:46:27PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Jun 2005 00:58:16 +0100
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> > But when I try to run /etc/init.d/pcmcia start on gentoo I get
> > PCMCIA support detec
. Beddingfield wrote:
> Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
> > Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not
> > being recognised.
>
> What is the make/model of the NIC you are trying to use?
> Please post the output from either command: 'lspci' or 'cat /pro
Hi all,
I am in the process of trying to upgrade my trusty Libretto 110CT from
SuSE Linux 7.3 (2.4.10 kernel) to the latest gentoo.
Base system is now coming up fine, but my PCMCIA lan card is not
being recognised.
Any suggestions on where I should look?
I did a manual config of the kernel, ena
wrote:
> On 5/29/05, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On the subject of CPU flags, anyone tried optimizing gentoo for a
> > Toshiba Libretto (110CT)?
> > model name : Mobile Pentium MMX
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce
On the subject of CPU flags, anyone tried optimizing gentoo for a
Toshiba Libretto (110CT)?
how do I determine which of the stage3 installation files:
stage3-athlon-xp-2005.0.tar.bz2
stage3-i686-2005.0.tar.bz2
stage3-pentium3-2005.0.tar.bz2
stage3-pentium4-2005.0.ta
Anyone know of any good PCMCIA to USB2 cards (for adding USB ports to an older
laptop) that work with gentoo Linux?
Thanks,
DigbyT
--
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http://www.digbyt.com
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Can anyone direct me to any useful resources for researching hardware
suitability for use in Gentoo systems?
My immediate need is to replace my old 10Mb PCMCIA LAN card in my
notebook with a 100Mb or better, ideally a multi-function
card that includes a modem as well (which would probably narrow
t
>
> Try reading the vim manual sometimes q=
> [ESC] :help [RETURN]
That was nice and easy on Unix where you could read the documentation
on any command just by typing
man command
but when every command has documentation in different places, accessed
using different commands, it takes a l
Since we are discussing this
I too am used to (and quite happy with) vi. It does what I want.
Since moving to gentoo I have continued to type 'vi' when I
want to edit a text file, in blissful ignorance of the fact that
this is now a sym link to vim - or at least should have been..
Now this w
ember which files you
> changed and not let it replace them. So, if you want your alsa to keep
> working do not let it modify your already-modified files. Also watch out for
> it to want to change /etc/fstab, this is a quite common rookie mistake.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Scott J
lem entry.
Moral of the story seems to be to search for ALL bugs from the mozilla page
rather than relying on the bugs link in the package database.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 12:18:04AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 22:56:21 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
>
&g
seemed to refer to 10.0.3..
Was there something else I should have done to find a relevent
bug report? Do you have a bug # for the report you are referring
to?
Regards,
DigbyT
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:14:03PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 20:37:12 +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote
My first 'update world' seems to have complete sucessfully, having
overcome the mozilla sensitifity to environment settings and the mysterious
file size discrepency of my RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm
file...
That just left the protected directory file updates, all of which
seemed straig
gards,
DigbyT
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 08:17:16PM +0100, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Still trying to get an 'emerge --update world' to complete...
>
> Now I am getting the following error:
> !!! Digest verification Failed:
> !!!/usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-
Still trying to get an 'emerge --update world' to complete...
Now I am getting the following error:
!!! Digest verification Failed:
!!!/usr/portage/distfiles/RealPlayer-10.0.3.748-20050223.i586.rpm
!!! Reason: Filesize does not match recorded size
I tried unmerging and then re-emergeing realp
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 06:07:36PM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:48:55 +0100 Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | An 'export HISTFILE=""' seemed to work around it, but I am not sure if
> | this should be reported as an
Anyone have any clues as to why my 'emerge --update world' seems to fail
on mozilla with the following output:
>>> Unpacking ipc-1.1.2.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work
>>> Unpacking enigmail-0.91.0.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/mozilla-1.7.7/work
* Applying mozilla-stackgrowth.patch ...
I have just done an emerge of gnat and adabindx and am having a bit
of trouble building the bindx demo programs to verify that it all
installed correctly...
The emege didn't leave a lot of clues as to what it had done, but
had there been a 'ReadMe' describing the adaptation to gentoo
portage, I su
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