Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Dienstag, den 16.12.2008, 15:10 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): > Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: > > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="% > >

Re: [gentoo-user] UDEV help

2008-12-16 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Montag, den 15.12.2008, 21:16 -0500 schrieb ext Willie Wong: > BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd?[0-9]", SYSFS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE", NAME="% > k", SYMLINK+="BackUpDrive" > [...] > ATTRS{serial}=="DEF10BDD77EE" You see the difference? HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Tragic kernel building for vmware gentoo guest on WinXP

2008-12-11 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 16:59 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > These URLS seem to be loading kind of slow right now: Hmm, unfortunately they don't load at all because of DNS failure. The machine name is unknown. Just put the files into a gzipped tar archive and attach that. Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 11.12.2008, 08:05 +0100 schrieb ext Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf): > > I'll extract `exact' messages if you are willing to spend some time > on > > this. But I suspect we should begin another thread with a subject > > that makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kenel line in grub.conf when using initrd

2008-12-10 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Mittwoch, den 10.12.2008, 16:34 -0600 schrieb ext Harry Putnam: > Dirk Heinrichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Am Mittwoch, 10. Dezember 2008 19:53:10 schrieb Harry Putnam: > >> I happen to be stuck with a machine using an initramfs. Every of attempt > >> of mine to build a new kernel not

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting of USB drives

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Dienstag, den 02.12.2008, 01:15 +0100 schrieb ext AJ Spagnoletti: > I have finally reached the point where I use enough USB media > (external hard drives and flash drives) that I would like to set up a > system to automount the media devices for me. I have read in the past > about hal + ivman an

Re: [gentoo-user] checksumming files

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Donnerstag, den 04.12.2008, 07:10 + schrieb ext Mick: > Almost every time I split a large file >1G into say 200k chunks, then ftp it > to a server and then: > > cat 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 > completefile ; md5sum -c completefile > > if fails. Checking the split files in turn I often find 1 or two

Re: [gentoo-user] Buying a low-cost printer for Linux

2008-12-03 Thread Heinrichs, Dirk (EXT-Capgemini - DE/Dusseldorf)
Am Mittwoch, den 03.12.2008, 20:29 -0800 schrieb ext Mark Knecht: > Thanks for the idea. I'd not heard of them. TurboPrint is actually a port of an old Amiga software. They already were ahead of time in the printing area back then. OTOH, there was this article on german Heise Online (english vers