Dale wrote:
>> I came to Gentoo from Linux From Scratch because I wanted something more
>> user friendly when it came to keeping track of package dependencies and
>> compilation procedures.
>>
>>
>>
>
> That is how I describe Gentoo, Linux from Scratch with a package manager
> and other neat tools
Michael Mol wrote:
> This. Very much this. My dive into Gentoo came as I was fed up with
> Debian and Ubuntu having buggy and/or outdated versions of multimedia
> encoding packages while trying to configure a box specced for live
> transcoding of h.264 to something my PS3 would like.
>
I came to
Dale wrote:
> Jack Byer wrote:
>> Dale wrote:
>>
>>> Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I
>>> tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped
>>> the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on t
David W Noon wrote:
> I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large
> (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as
> it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc.
> This sucks, so I need to patch the Makefile(s) to build a more sens
Dale wrote:
> Did you use a howto for Dracut? If so, have a link you could post? I
> tried making a init thingy and after about 20 failed reboots, I scraped
> the idea. I was trying to follow the howto on the Gentoo wiki I think.
> The unofficial wiki.
>
I had some difficulties because the wa
czernitko wrote:
> I would like to have only one partition with all home directories on it,
> and I would like to avoid usage of initrd as I don't use it now and I
> would like to keep it that way if possible.
You don't need an initramfs but you might want to reconsider not using one
at some po
Florian Philipp wrote:
> Another thing you can think of is whether you want encryption. I've done
> this for my laptop. The usual setup would by md->lvm->crypt. I've done
> it crypt->lvm (an LVM physical volume on top of an encrypted partition).
> This way, I only need to enter the password once.
Pandu Poluan wrote:
> On Nov 28, 2011 6:24 AM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:56:17 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>>
>> > I don't know where the 'blame' lies, but I've found myself
>> > standardizing on MAKEOPTS=-j3, and PORTAGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs
>> > --load-average=<1.6*num_
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