Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc

2006-06-02 Thread Mike Owen
On 6/2/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install everything except toys, games and educational packages. Since the DO_NOT_COMPILE is not meant to be used

Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!

2006-05-26 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/26/06, JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Gentoo on the x86 arch you mean. It's a shame they released a binary only version, especially one using a Wine wrapper around the original Windows application.

Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/

2006-04-28 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/28/06, Yrjö Hatakka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? -- ykä at home There are a few bugs open on bugzilla for this. I personally hate it, so I made a small patch for portage to disable it. If you want to disable it for the future, edit /usr/lib/port

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/6/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/04/06, Mike Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm curious as to why you need the proxy info in the first place. It > > sounds like you can connect out just fine, so why bother with > > configuri

Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy

2006-04-06 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/5/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > At work there's a rather restrictive gateway in place for connecting > LAN desktops to the Internet. How would you go about finding its IP > address? > > Assume that I am booting with Knoppix for this purpose. > -- > Regards, > Mick > I'm c

Re: [gentoo-user] Versiera Internet Management and Monitoring System

2006-04-05 Thread Mike Owen
On 4/5/06, Frank Pikelner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NetCraft Communications Incorporated today announced the immediate I can't believe Netcraft thinks that spamming mailing lists will get people interested in their product. If anything, I think it would have the opposite effect. I for one am

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-21 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per > the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the > same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking > that I was getting a deeper level of opt

Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process

2006-03-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/20/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just > acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo > on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to > the installation process recently.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails

2006-03-08 Thread Mike Owen
On 3/6/06, Erwin Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi everyone! > > i tried to emerge lilo (`emerge -bva lilo') - but it aborts with the following > error-message: > > open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) > open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) > In the past, emerging LILO would

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > > > > I have a different interpretation. > > I assume you know about FEATURES="parallel-fetch"? It's probably not the best idea to recommend ~arch versions of portage. Mike -- gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage

2006-02-13 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/13/06, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time, > but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly > configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every > time. > > Is there another way

Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated

2006-02-10 Thread Mike Owen
On 2/10/06, John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fdisk -l > > Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (dependency required by "media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1" [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-20 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/20/06, Linux Java <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. > > I used Gnome for years (5 or 6 maybe?), but have recently switched to kde-3.4 and then now kde-3.5. For me, I wanted to try something different, and it is a nice change. I may swap back ev

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/19/06, Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've noticed lately that when I do an "emerge -Davu world" (for example), > that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. > No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing > happened. > > What

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on xeon with 64 bits extention

2006-01-12 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/12/06, Catalin Neagoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > Anyone knows if there is gentoo for xeon with 64 bits extention? > 'cause I've seen that there are only amd_64,ppc64 and sparc64 gentoo > versions. > Am I wrong? > > Thank you. > > -- > Catalin Even though it's called "amd64",

Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route

2005-08-19 Thread Mike Owen
On 8/19/05, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new > configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). > I have this: > route_eth0=("default via 192.168.1.101") Change that to routes_eth0 and it should work

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools

2005-05-25 Thread Mike Owen
On 5/25/05, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had > selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? > Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? > > Also I perviously u

Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%

2005-04-11 Thread Mike Owen
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, >I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is > rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly > determine where the disk space is getting used? > du -hs /* This will give you an easy